Acceptance Quote by Diane Wakoski

When I think of someone equating poems and machines, it makes me feel like that person would like poems to have a more obvious…

— Elaine Equi

Today, the PC is often still considered just a tool, but together we need to make it a lot more than that. We need…

— Jim Allchin

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting…

— Stephen Vincent Benet

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds…

— Bill Gates

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

— Mary Oliver

One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with…

— Cate Marvin

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

— Toi Derricotte

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

— George Orwell

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn…

— Sylvia Plath

People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives people a…

— Joan Larkin

For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.

— John Kinsella