The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives … - Maxine Kumin

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one of my earliest joys as a parent lay in knowing that at the end of the day I had once again ushered three babies back to their beds, against the odds, unscathed and peaceful. Happiness was a houseful of safe, inert bodies. Actually, it still is.

Maxine Kumin

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.

Feelings, Gives, Giving, Handle, Honest, Permission

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We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

Locked, Prisoner, Stories, Story, Writing

I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture - to make poetry a career. The writing of poetry is one thing. It's an obsession, the scratching of a divine itch, and has nothing to do with money. You can, however, make a career out of being a poet by teaching, traveling around, and giving lectures. It's a thin living at best.

Careers, Living, Nothing, Recommend, Teaching, Writing

To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.

Alienation, Celebrate, Hatred, Odds, Poem, Writing

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old

Sleep, Sleeping, Wake Up, Wakes, Years

It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.

Act, Bearing, Bearing Witness, Important, Matter, Witness

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We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. And there is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others

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Paul Theroux

Truly, the worst trains take one across the best landscapes.

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I wanted to be rid of him," he says. He raises my chin with his thumb. "But not if it meant being rid of you. I climbed in beside you, and you put your head in my lap. You can't think I would have left you like that. " "Look what it got you," I say. "Tea in bed and you here in front of me," he says. "It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.

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Cyndi Lauper

Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.

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