"But I don't think that poetry is a……" — Diane Wakoski
"But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events."
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30 Quotes by Diane Wakoski
Diane Wakoski has 30 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry…
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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…
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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…
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I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like…
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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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American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a…
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Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.
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I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and…
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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
— Spiro T. Agnew
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in…
— Geraldine Brooks
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One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary…
— Joseph Campbell
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Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of…
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If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values…
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I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away…
— Francesca Annis
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Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I…
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