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Carolyn Kizer Quotes

I didn't learn much about writing at Sarah Lawrence, but I learned a lot about the sources of poems - dreams, myth, history - from the really great teachers, Joseph Campbell, Charles Trinkhaus, Bert Loewenberg, and a young Australian anthropologist named Harry Hawthorne.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: December 10, 1925 - October 9, 2014

Topics

Dreams History Great Writing Learn

I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

Think Potential Excuses Country Say

My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy.

Honest Guy Straight Really Dad

Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests.

Creative Musicians Political Play

I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.

Laugh Comedy Doing Serious Never

At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.

Hurt End Push You Down Marathon

I don't care what America and Africa think; I am only concerned that the people of this country should be saved from its Army.

I Am People Think Care Army America

I don't consider the first-world concerns any less important than the third-world ones.

Important Than Consider Less Any

I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

Life Wisdom Creativity Death Thought

Sometimes I am glad I am not a philosopher - how would I ever complete a single chain of thought when someone is constantly asking me to do something? I don't think Plato would have been able to write his dialogues if he had a wife who kept bugging him to pass the pita bread.

Wife I Am Me Think Thought Someone

If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region.

World End Generation You Know Egypt

What are the 10 major legacies that European colonization have left behind? Issues of illiteracy. Issues of ill health. Issues of poor infrastructure. Issues of backward agricultural economies. And it goes on.

Health Poor Infrastructure Left Goes

Even though I am very tied to and close to my heritage, I learned Spanish in college; I didn't grow up with it. Growing up in South Texas is different from Miami or L.A. where it is a necessity to speak Spanish.

I Am College Growing Up Speak Miami

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