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I began writing poems when I was about eight, with a heavy assist from my mother. She read me Arthur Waley's translations and Whitman and Robinson Jeffers, who have been lifelong influences on me. My father read Keats to me, and then he read more Keats while I was lying on the sofa struggling with asthma.

~Carolyn Kizer

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As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south.

~Carolyn Kizer

Topics: About Between Fields First Poem Real Remember South Wheat Wrote I Remember

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No matter how brief an encounter you have with anybody, you both change.

~Carolyn Kizer

Topics: Anybody Both Brief Change Encounter How Matter You

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I wrote poetry off and on in high school, when I could manage to get out of gym classes and sports - using my allergies as an excuse - and climb the hill behind school till I found a nice place to settle down with a notebook and look at Spokane spread out below.

~Carolyn Kizer

Topics: Behind Below Classes Climb Could Down Excuse Found Get Gym High High School Hill Look Manage Nice Notebook Off Out Place Poetry School Settle Sports Spread Till Using Wrote

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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.

~Carolyn Kizer

Topics: About Anthropologist Australian Campbell Charles Dreams Great Great Teachers Harry History Joseph Lawrence Learn Learned Lot Much Myth Named Poems Really Sarah Sources Teachers Writing Young

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I've been enormously fortunate. People say, 'How do you feel about your reputation?' My real belief is that I have exactly the reputation I deserve... on the whole, I feel comfortable with myself.

~Carolyn Kizer

Topics: About Been Belief Comfortable Deserve Exactly Feel Fortunate How Myself People People Say Real Reputation Say Whole You Your I Feel

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I tell people I never got to hear Dylan Thomas read because my husband wouldn't let me, because he thought it would be a sort of bad influence. People say, 'And you didn't go?' They're so surprised because the me they know would have gone. And I say I was very much a 'yes, dear' wife.

~Carolyn Kizer

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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.

~Carolyn Kizer

Topics: About Back Ending Get Had Irony Letters Made Mail Many Pro Put Said Stamp Students Used

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I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.

~Carolyn Kizer

Topics: Girl Michelangelo Raised I Was Raised

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I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.

~Carolyn Kizer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: December 10th, 1925

Died: October 9th, 2014

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