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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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Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.
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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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What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate…
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I'm very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.
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I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.
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At the end of the day, one of the most politically active voters in the country, seniors, will know who stood with…
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The…
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I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.
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The only way back toward a democracy and economy that work for the majority is for most of us to get politically…
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