"Our masks, always in peril of smearing or……" — Carolyn Kizer
"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, concerned with our surfaces."
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9 Quotes by Carolyn Kizer
Carolyn Kizer has 9 quotes on this site.
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Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.
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He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that…
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Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in…
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We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.
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A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust,
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You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is…
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She tended to be impatient with that sort of intellectual who, for all his brilliance, has never been able to…
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You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.
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