All Diane Wakoski Quotes
- Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it. Art
- Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life. Born
- American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. Always Personal
- Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's… Care
- Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender… American
- But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. Contemporary
- But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way. Anyone
- High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. All
- I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other… Current
- I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of… Active
- I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not… Arguing
- I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was. Always Wanted
- American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did. American
- I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain… Attitude
- My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I… All
- I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women… All
- I am not political as a person. Inspirational
- I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. American
- I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry.… Always Wanted
- I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not… Ask