Personal Narrative Quotes by Diane Wakoski

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• Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.
• Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.
• American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
• Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I…
• Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with…
• But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.
• But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.
• High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
• I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss…
• I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing…
• I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower.…
• I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.

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