Diane Wakoski Quotes
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“I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeares sonnets.”
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“It was hard for them to accuse their wives of infidelity when their rival was an invisible man.”
— Diane Wakoski
“Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.”
— Diane Wakoski
“Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.”
— Diane Wakoski
PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.
— Diane Wakoski
“Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.”
— Diane Wakoski
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.
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— Diane Wakoski
— Diane Wakoski
Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive.
— Diane Wakoski
— Diane Wakoski
American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.
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“But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.”
— Diane Wakoski
— Diane Wakoski
“I am not political as a person.”
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I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.
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I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.
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I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.
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— Diane Wakoski
— Diane Wakoski
We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.
— Diane Wakoski
The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it.
— Diane Wakoski
“Poems come from incomplete knowledge.”
— Diane Wakoski
Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's pleasure in unlocking and revealing these secrets.
— Diane Wakoski
— Diane Wakoski
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