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Maxine Kumin

American Poet

Born: Jun 6, 1925

Died: Feb 6, 2014

Dinner Simple Think Today Writing You

Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman

The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school! Maxine Kumin

Today Alone Lie Simple School Scan Lay Facts Never Students Between Know How Line Been Discovering Graduate Graduate School Graduate Students Taught Difference Grammar Depressing Them Really Teaching Many Elemental Thing

That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do. Maxine Kumin

You Happy Marriage Marry Someone Similar Anything Happy Marriage Who Prescription

I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagistic poems. But I don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. I want to write poems that matter, that have an interesting point of view. Maxine Kumin

Life Simple Matter Down Guard Would Would-Be Easy Poems Point Point Of View Write Reached Where Want Interesting View Let Down Necessary

I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical. Maxine Kumin

Great Sometimes Somewhere Bone Abandoned Scan Poems Sabbatical Tend Vast Leads Along Beyond Pile Just Muse

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do? Maxine Kumin

Writing Would Write Salvation

So many poems you go into and come up empty. Maxine Kumin

You Poems Come Empty Go Up Many

I don't think I've ever felt terribly comfortable writing about my body. First of all, I think I took my body for granted for so many years. I abused it a lot. Maxine Kumin

Writing First Think Took About Abuse First Of All Terribly Comfortable Felt Years Lot So Many Years Body Granted Many Ever

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