Rachel Zucker Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

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

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

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

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

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

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

I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.