Communication Quote by Carolyn Kizer

Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your…

— Carolyn Kizer

She tended to be impatient with that sort of intellectual who, for all his brilliance, has never been able to arrive at the simple…

— Carolyn Kizer

You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.

— Carolyn Kizer

I happen to believe that there are a lot of good poets around at present, but a poet like Alex Kuo, who possesses a…

— 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…

— Carolyn Kizer

“Food of Love Eating is touch carried to the bitter end. -Samuel Butler II I'm going to murder you with love; I'm going to…

— Carolyn Kizer

What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.

— Carolyn Kizer

“from "Semele Recycled" But then your great voice rang out under the skies my name!-- and all those private names for the parts and…

— Carolyn Kizer

In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly…

— Carolyn Kizer

“Poets are interested primarily in death and commas. ”

— Carolyn Kizer

A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust,

— Carolyn Kizer

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

— Carolyn Kizer