Body Quote by Diane Wakoski Download Open image “American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.” — Diane Wakoski ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Body Celebrate Celebrate life Poet Poetry
“The best way to understand the soul of America is read Walt Whitman's poetry” — Dermot McCabe Copy Share Image
“And inevitably there always crept into our discussions the figure of Whitman, that one lone figure which America has produced in the course of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“But something special happened to American poetry in the 19th century when Walt Whitman broke with more traditional English poetics and fashioned an American poetic style as innovative and imaginative as the new nation itself. He created a persona narrator whose ambition it was to embrace all the ideals and spirit of rebellion and revolutionary zeal of its history, while… — Anonymous Copy Share
Certainly I'm participating in an already established and awesome tradition, but it's a tradition that sort of shoots up and through the mainstream in short bursts and pulses and then gets diluted. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson shot up and then got sucked back down underground under more entertaining and less radical versions of body and self - poetry and… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Whitman's poems present no trace of rhyme, save in a couple or so of chance instances. Parts of them, indeed, may be regarded as… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America. — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The English tourist in American literature wants above all things something different from what he has at home. For this reason the one American writer whom the English whole-heartedly admire is Walt Whitman. There, you will hear them say, is the real American undisguised. In the whole of English literature there is no figure which resembles his - among all… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share
Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“Uneasy Rider" Falling in love with a mustache is like saying you can fall in love with the way a man polishes his shoes… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
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… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by ... creating… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls. — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
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