Carolyn Kizer Quotes

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We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.

Carolyn Kizer

Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous checks in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.

Carolyn Kizer

Women... are the custodians of the world's best kept secret:
Merely the private lives of one-half of humanity.

Carolyn Kizer

Song,
angry bush
with the thrust of your roots
deep in this icy grounds,
is there a polar sun?

Carolyn Kizer

There is a great dull music in the ocean that lapses into seascape.

Carolyn Kizer

Go, my songs
to the young and insolent,
speak the love of final things -
do not betray me
as a dancer, drunk,
is dumb to his clumsiness.

Carolyn Kizer

Dusk over the lake,
clouds floating
heat lightning
a nightmare behind branches

Carolyn Kizer

Carolyn Kizer

Carolyn Kizer

Born: December 10, 1925

Died: October 9, 2014 (aged 88)

Bio: Carolyn Ashley Kizer was an American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

Known for:

Pro femina (2000)
Cool, Calm, and Collected (2001)
The ungrateful garden (1961)
Mermaids in the basement (1984)

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