It is important to act as if bearing witness matters. — Maxine Kumin Bearing witness Copy Share Image
A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words. — Maxine Kumin Dictionary Copy Share Image
And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life. — Maxine Kumin Ifs Copy Share Image
There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in… — Maxine Kumin Among Copy Share Image
“Is this what happens to utopias from the Freek outopos, no place, why must they all evolve from u- to dys-?” — Maxine Kumin Utopia Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever felt terribly comfortable writing about my body. First of all, I think I took my body for… — Maxine Kumin About Copy Share Image
Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentuchy, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P? — Maxine Kumin Inspirational Copy Share Image
The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very… — Maxine Kumin Easier Copy Share Image
My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an… — Maxine Kumin Areas Copy Share Image
To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying… — Maxine Kumin Alienation Copy Share Image
I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this… — Maxine Kumin Careers Copy Share Image
Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. — Maxine Kumin Happens Copy Share Image
Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do? — Maxine Kumin Salvation Copy Share Image
I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach. — Maxine Kumin Approach Copy Share Image
We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story. — Maxine Kumin Inspirational Copy Share Image
“She's an aristocrat who advocates –words worn across centuries—for women's rights.” — Maxine Kumin Aristocrat Copy Share Image
I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them. — Maxine Kumin Poems Copy Share Image
“Is this what happens to utopias from the Greek outopos, no place, why must they all evolve from u- to dys-?” — Maxine Kumin Utopia Copy Share Image
“Nothing is changed, except there was a moment when the wolf, the mongering wolf who stands outside the self lay lightly down,… — Maxine Kumin Slept Copy Share Image
I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment and my culture...… — Maxine Kumin Culture Copy Share Image
One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth. — Maxine Kumin Mouths Copy Share Image
That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do. — Maxine Kumin Anything Copy Share Image
If I'm working on a poem, it's at the forefront of my mind; I'm working on it when I'm cooking dinner or… — Maxine Kumin Cooking Copy Share Image
The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really… — Maxine Kumin Alone Copy Share Image
Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die before if… — Maxine Kumin Air Copy Share Image
I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I… — Maxine Kumin Abandoned Copy Share Image
