"Nature is a catchment of sorrows." — Maxine Kumin
"Nature is a catchment of sorrows."
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14 Quotes by Maxine Kumin
Maxine Kumin has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentuchy, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the…
- We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.
- And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life.
- Love, we are a small pond.
- The time on either side of now stands fast.
- Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die…
- When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old
- ... people get confidential at midnight.
- Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.
- To build is to dwell.
- A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.
- There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find…
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- Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke