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Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems. — Maxine Kumin

Not that it isn't great to see you. But it's not so great for you. What'd you do wrong? Laugh at his dick? — Margaret Atwood

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent. — Norman Mailer

I can say that I have not done any culpable violation of the constitution. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Is a body grown in upon itself, a Gothic folly. — William Gibson

Cherish your wilderness. — Maxine Kumin

What can an outsider know, except/the shell of things? — Maxine Kumin

Go (please stay), Go (please stay), Go if you want to,I can't stop you. Just go if you want to I can't stop you. — Sara Quin

You," Sanguine said, "are the worst psychic I've ever met. — Derek Landy

Everything pays for growing tame. — Maxine Kumin

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going. — Maxine Kumin

God serves the choosy. They know what to want ... — Maxine Kumin

That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do. — Maxine Kumin

Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentuchy, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P? — Maxine Kumin

A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words. — Maxine Kumin

I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach. — Maxine Kumin

Nature is a catchment of sorrows. — Maxine Kumin

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them. — Maxine Kumin

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos. — Auguste Comte

I find nothing more depressing than optimism. — Paul Fussell

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. — Denis Diderot

The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings. — Maxine Kumin

And he has been a good son to me. I hope he proves ... worthy — Khaled Hosseini

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old — Maxine Kumin

Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air and water. — Maxine Kumin

I hate the word wholesome. — Julie Andrews Edwards

People get confidential at midnight. — Maxine Kumin

Life will do anything for a living. — Maxine Kumin

Had we not decided to perform this as gracefully as a dancer's leap? But we turned it into a dinosaur's dance party! — Pawan Mishra

Poetry
makes nothing happen.
It survives
in the valley of its saying. — Maxine Kumin

And the pond's stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life. — Maxine Kumin

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do? — Maxine Kumin

There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in Manhattan. — Maxine Kumin

Historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics. — C.V. Wedgwood

The time on either side of now stands fast. — Maxine Kumin

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

To build is to dwell. — Maxine Kumin

Love, we are a small pond. — Maxine Kumin

So many poems you go into and come up empty. — Maxine Kumin

It is important to act as if bearing witness matters. — Maxine Kumin

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth. — Maxine Kumin