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Diane Wakoski Quotes

American - Poet | 1937 -

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

Poetry Language American Wish Other

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.

History Great Poetry Think Language

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

Poetry Painting American Personal

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

Celebrate American Poets Did Very

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

I Am Poetry Political Way Never

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

Good Poetry Think Events Word Venue

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Art Culture Together Poetry American

I am not political as a person.

I Am Political Person Am

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

Love Today Language Sometimes Why

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

Poetry Language Still Resilient Goes

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.

Women Power Poetry Care Political

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.

I Am People Television Want Will

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