Maxine Kumin Quotes (17 Quotes)

Everything pays for growing tame.

Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air and water.

And the ponds stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life.

This dwelt in me who does not know me now, where in her labyrinth I cannot follow, advance to be recognized, displace her terror I hold my heartbeat on my lap and cannot comfort her. Tonight she is condemned to cry out wolf or werewolf, and it echoes in the gulf and no one comes to cradle cold Narcissus the first cell that divided separates us.

Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentuchy, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A P.

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.

I took the lake between my legs.

Love, we are a small pond.

Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die before if i should die in the back room stacked up in smooth boxes like soapflakes or tunafish wait the undreamt of.

Something went crabwise across the snow this morning.

To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane.

It is said to begin with the father.

The time on either side of now stands fast.

Our daughters and sons have burst from the marionette show leaving a tangle of strings and gone into the unlit audience.

Cherish your wilderness.

It's a simple world, full of crossovers.