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…

- Maxine Kumin

Everything pays for growing tame.

- Maxine Kumin

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…

- Maxine Kumin

Cherish your wilderness.

- Maxine Kumin

The time on either side of now stands fast.

- Maxine Kumin

Love, we are a small pond.

- Maxine Kumin

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.

- Maxine Kumin

Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentuchy, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P?

- Maxine Kumin

It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.

- Maxine Kumin