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Famous Maxine Kumin Quotes
“God serves the choosy. They know what to want.”
Source: The privilege
“I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.”
Source: Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry
Source: Women, Animals & Vegetables: Essays & Stories
“It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.”
Source: Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry
“Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.”
“I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach.”
Source: In deep: country essays
“Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.”
Source: The Pawnbroker's Daughter: A Memoir
Source: Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry
“We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.”
Source: The retrieval system: poems
“And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life.”
Source: The nightmare factory
Source: The nightmare factory
“When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old”
“... people get confidential at midnight.”
Source: The designated heir
“Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.”
Source: The designated heir