Carolyn Kizer Quotes

She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't.

Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.

Soon he'll come in again and kiss me, but differently. He'll be different and so I'll be different. It'll be different. I thought, 'It'll be different, different. It must be different.

I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting.

What do we know but that we face one another in this place?

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

I feel the flatline of my existence disrupting, forming heartbeat hills and valleys

The happening that happened was that I met this girl.

Looking back, I could not point to one special time and say, There! That's what is amazing. We can change completely and not recognize it. We think terrible events have made us into stone. But love slips in like a chisel - and suddenly it is an ax, breaking us into pieces from the inside.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.

Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world.

It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring.

You think of me as a... living stone - hard and cold. That's true. We are set the way we are, and it is very rare for us to experience a real change. When that happens, as when Bella entered my life, it is a permanent change. There's no going back.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

I think that when somebody, when people really have a connection with each other, they change each other. You become a different person, hopefully a better person, because of it.

I use to be panicked, but know I'm curious!

CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change.

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way—I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it.

And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.

You are not crazy. You are just ready to change.

Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life from one moment to the next. But there's the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human being take a totally different course from one he or she had planned; and that was called despair. Yes, perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly.

Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. [...] That is the aspect of conversation that particularly excites me: how conversation changes the way you see the world, and even changes the world.

Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.