Top 38 Rachel Zucker Quotes

#1. I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.

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#2. I really, really fear head injuries. But when people hit their heads in movies or fall down - I can't stop laughing.

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#3. I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

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#4. I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.

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#5. I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.

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#6. I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.

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#7. I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.

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#8. I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.

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#9. I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.

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#10. I'm even afraid of kittens. They bite too! But I respect animals.

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#11. Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.

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#12. I was not popular enough - or at all - when Vanilla Ice was popular to remember who Vanilla Ice is without my husband reminding me. So I don't have a Vanilla Ice key chain.

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#13. I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.

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#14. It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

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#15. Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.

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#16. I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.

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#17. One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.

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#18. Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.

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#19. I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.

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#20. Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.

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#21. a woman with young children is not a woman but a mammal, salve, croon, water carrier

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#22. Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and hauntingly memorable poems are a bleak place full of life, prayer, and the kind of answers only poems like these can provide.

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#23. Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.

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#24. I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.

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#25. Even if a poem is beautiful and memorable, it's not like an advertising jingle or propaganda, which attempt to convince and control. Poems seek to confuse, disabuse, enlarge understanding, and make people ask questions and think for themselves.

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#26. as I travel the city / hating poetry & my haircut & all the things I do not / want to do

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#27. When I edit the poems - and I do edit, which some people don't mean when they use the term "stream of consciousness" - I'm usually editing toward greater accuracy, which sometimes means more fragmentation, because that is the way I think.

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#28. I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.

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#29. I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.

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#30. In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.

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#31. My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

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#32. I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.

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#33. I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's expectations. But I don't like dressing up like on Halloween.

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#34. I think humor and terror are very closely related.

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#35. Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

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#36. I have no lover, not even my love.
I have no other, not even I.

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#37. I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.

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#38. I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.

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