33 Quotes by Maxine Kumin

God serves the choosy. They know what to want...

The time on either side of now stands fast.

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.

And the pond’s stillness nippled as if by rain instead is pocked with life.

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

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

Everything pays for growing tame.

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.

To build is to dwell.