Carolyn Kizer Quotes
You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.
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.
He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.
What is so marvelous about living today is that it is possible to extend, like a flower, spreading petals in all directions.
A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.
Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.