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Diane Wakoski has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.
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Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.
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American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
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Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I…
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Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with…
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But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
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But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.
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High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
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I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss…
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I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing…
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I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower.…
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I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense,…
— Kurt Lewin
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Art, to me is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain. The word 'Impressionism' as applied…
— Childe Hassam
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The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a…
— Bernard Lown
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The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
— Frederick Douglass
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The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves…
— Diane Wakoski
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The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.
— Childe Hassam
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
— Fernando Pessoa
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The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.
— Michael Shermer
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