Diane Wakoski Quotes - Page 2

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

  Diane Wakoski

  Hymns, Body, Celebrate Life

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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.

  Diane Wakoski

  Women, Writing, Thinking

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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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• I am not political as a person.

  Diane Wakoski

  Political, Persons

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• American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

  Diane Wakoski

  Individuality, Literature, Painting

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• Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.

  Diane Wakoski

  Power, Feminist, 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 often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

  Diane Wakoski

  Race, Landscape, Sometimes

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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

  Thinking, Events, Use

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• From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.

  Diane Wakoski

  Reading, Answers, Literature

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• But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

  Diane Wakoski

  Political, Events, Way

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• My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.

  Diane Wakoski

  Women, Thinking, Problem

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