Carolyn Kizer Quotes

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• Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.
• He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.
• Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your brain.…
• We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.
• A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust,
• You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.
• She tended to be impatient with that sort of intellectual who, for all his brilliance, has never been able to arrive at the simple conclusion…
• Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves,…
• You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.

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