What did Maxine Kumin mean by: I didn’t write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them. - Maxine Kumin Poet · USA Copy
+ God serves the choosy. They know what to want. Feraz Zeid, July 20, 2023December 12, 2023, Maxine Kumin, God, 0 - Maxine Kumin Poet · USA
+ Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going. Feraz Zeid, September 19, 2023December 26, 2023, Maxine Kumin, Tradition, 0 - Maxine Kumin Poet · USA
+ Cherish your wilderness. Feraz Zeid, September 2, 2023December 24, 2023, Maxine Kumin, Cherish, Wilderness, 0 - Maxine Kumin Poet · USA
+ To build is to dwell. Feraz Zeid, October 8, 2023December 26, 2023, Maxine Kumin, Building, 0 - Maxine Kumin Poet · USA
+ Love, we are a small pond. Feraz Zeid, October 17, 2023December 26, 2023, Maxine Kumin, Love, Ponds, 0 - Maxine Kumin Poet · USA
+ We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Maxine Kumin, Prisoner, Stories, Writing, 0 - Maxine Kumin Poet · USA
+ The time on either side of now stands fast. Feraz Zeid, October 6, 2023December 26, 2023, Maxine Kumin, Sides, Time, 0 - Maxine Kumin Poet · USA
+ One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Maxine Kumin, Mouths, Poetry, Tails, 0 - Maxine Kumin Poet · USA
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
