"I don't like political poetry, and I don't……" — Diane Wakoski
"I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers."
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Diane Wakoski
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30 Quotes by Diane Wakoski
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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 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…
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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 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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