26 Quotes by Carolyn Kizer

Poets are interested primarily in death and commas.

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

The birds will wing from the weather,While I stand, still as the harvest,With the sound of the fall in the air.

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

As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south.

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.

I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.

No matter how brief an encounter you have with anybody, you both change.