"Learning to live what you're born with is……" — Diane Wakoski
"Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life."
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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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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 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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As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of…
— Neil Armstrong
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I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
— David Attenborough
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
— Margaret Atwood
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I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Art is born of humiliation.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
— Marcus Aurelius
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where…
— Sai Baba
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The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What…
— Richard Bach
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
— Gaston Bachelard
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The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when…
— Michelle Bachelet
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
— Michele Bachmann
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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