"Let my life as Poet begin. I want……" — Maxine Hong Kingston
"Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem."
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Maxine Hong Kingston
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41 Quotes by Maxine Hong Kingston
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There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.
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I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.
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Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.
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The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch…
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I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.
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The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace,…
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And I had to get out of hating range.
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A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution.…
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You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'
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Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound
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Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see…
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