Carolyn Kizer
Carolyn Kizer
Carolyn Ashley Kizerwas an American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth10 December 1925
CountryUnited States of America
museums color important
In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing.
passion wonder apprehension
We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.
mirrors needs faces
Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.
australian charles dreams great harry history joseph learn learned named poems sarah sources
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.
letters mail stamp
I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of 'Pro Femina.' So I had a stamp made that said 'irony, irony, irony' to put on a postcard and mail it back.