Diane Wakoski Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Editors, Needs, Pages

  Diane Wakoski (1980). “Toward a new poetry”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your nervous breakdown, being irresponsible about money.

  Diane Wakoski

  Drinking, Drug, Too Much

  Diane Wakoski (1988). “Emerald Ice: Selected Poems, 1962-1987”, p.162, David R. Godine Publisher

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• One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.

  Diane Wakoski

  Book, Numbers, Long

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• 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

  Acceptance, Stuff, Good Work

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• I am not political as a person.

  Diane Wakoski

  Political, Persons

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• I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

  Diane Wakoski

  Wish, Language, British

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• American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

  Diane Wakoski

  Hymns, Body, Celebrate Life

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• I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.

  Diane Wakoski

  Reading, Thinking, People

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• 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.

  Diane Wakoski

  Dream, Flower, Helping

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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.

  Diane Wakoski

  Passing On, Long, Literature

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• Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

  Diane Wakoski

  Literature, Today, Language

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• I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

  Diane Wakoski

  People, Events, Watches

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Trying

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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 Shakespeare's sonnets.

  Diane Wakoski

  Voice, Literature, Narrative

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