Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. — Maxine Kumin Happens 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
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
And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life. — Maxine Kumin Ifs 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
A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words. — Maxine Kumin Dictionary Copy Share Image
It is important to act as if bearing witness matters. — Maxine Kumin Bearing witness 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 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
“Is this what happens to utopias from the Freek outopos, no place, why must they all evolve from u- to dys-?” — Maxine Kumin 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
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
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
I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagistic poems. But… — Maxine Kumin Down 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
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
