"I had been dreaming a complicated dream about……" — Diane Wakoski
"I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not arguing, but engaged in a rousing discussion."
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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 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 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 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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More Arguing Quotes
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
— Richard Bach
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You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally…
— Scott Adams
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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
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The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you…
— Bono
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Sometimes, if you really don't know how you feel about a topic, reading how both sides argue it can help.
— Elayne Boosler
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I consider myself sort of like a pseudo lawyer. Like, I'm convinced I can solve every case and argue my…
— Sandra Bullock
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I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people…
— Sandra Bullock
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The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right…
— Madeleine Albright
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and…
— Barbara Bush
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Well, as I said, you know the issue of Greek debt, they've grasped the principle of debt reduction. I think…
— Vince Cable
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Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.
— Paula Abdul
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