Carolyn Kizer Quotes

What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.

You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your brain. Little photographic snapshots. Then you get the major vision of the poem, which is like a giant magnet to which all these disparate little impressions fly and adhere, and there is the poem!

We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.

Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.