Maxine Kumin Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: June 6, 1925 - February 6, 2014
Birthday: June 6
Death: February 6
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We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.
source: - Maxine Kumin (1978). “The retrieval system: poems”, Viking Pr
source: - Maxine Kumin (1970). “The nightmare factory”
source: - Maxine Kumin (1970). “The nightmare factory”
source: - Maxine Kumin (2000). “Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry”
source: - Maxine Kumin (1996). “Women, Animals & Vegetables: Essays & Stories”
Topics: Writing, Nests, Needs, Suspension
It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.
source: - Maxine Kumin (2000). “Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry”
Topics: Important, Matter, Bearing Witness
God serves the choosy. They know what to want ...
source: - Maxine Kumin (1965). “The privilege”
Topics: Building
Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.
source: - Maxine Kumin (1974). “The designated heir”, Viking Adult
... people get confidential at midnight.
source: - Maxine Kumin (1974). “The designated heir”, Viking Adult
Topics: People, Midnight, Confidential, Confiding
When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old
Topics: Sleep, Years, Fifty, Sleeping Beauty, Fifty Year Olds
Nature is a catchment of sorrows.
source: - "Go Be a King in a Field of Weeds" by Carol Muske, www.nytimes.com. November 5, 1989. 
source: - Maxine Kumin (2000). “Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry”
Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
source: - Maxine Kumin (2015). “The Pawnbroker's Daughter: A Memoir”, p.40, W. W. Norton & Company
Topics: Poetry, Valleys, Things Happen
I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach.
source: - Maxine Kumin (1987). “In deep: country essays”, Viking Pr
Topics: Women, Home, Light, Old Ways, Going Home
