Quotations

"Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male."

— Alfred Kinsey, American sexologist, born 1894

"If all persons with any trace of homosexual history, or those who were predominantly homosexual, were eliminated from the population today, there is no reason for believing that the incidence of the homosexual in the next generation would be materially reduced. The homosexual has been a significant part of human sexual activity since the dawn of history, primarily because it is an expression of capacities that are basic in the human animal."

— Alfred Kinsey, American sexologist, born 1894

"The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform."

— Alfred Kinsey, American sexologist, born 1894

"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

— Rudyard Kipling, English poet, born 1865

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

— Rudyard Kipling, English poet, born 1865

"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers."

— Rudyard Kipling, English poet, born 1865

"You've got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you'll feel, the lighter you'll look."

— Gelsey Kirkland, American ballerina, born 1952

"I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing."

— Eartha Kitt, American singer, born 1927

"I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold."

— Eartha Kitt, American singer, born 1927

"You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject."

— Carolyn Kizer, American poet, born 1925

"Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your brain. Little photographic snapshots. Then you get the major vision of the poem, which is like a giant magnet to which all these disparate little impressions fly and adhere, and there is the poem!"

— Carolyn Kizer, American poet, born 1925

"He said, 'You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic.' I got up and walked out of that class and never went back."

— Carolyn Kizer, American poet, born 1925

"Poets are interested mostly in death and commas."

— Carolyn Kizer, American poet, born 1925

"And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."

— KJV, John 1:5