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Diane Wakoski Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: 1937

Topics

Poetry Language Still Resilient Goes

I don't like this kind of life where every month you are faced with some kind of a coup.

Life You Kind Month Where Like

Entrepreneurs are like cats, because they are independent and do their own thing. Although organisations say they like cats, what they really want is sheep that they can herd.

Cats Sheep Say Want Independent Own

I love the sci-fi movies where it's from the point of view of humans in that situation... When it becomes too clever in its ideas, the cyber-punk, high-tech thing, it becomes more about something else.

Love Ideas View Point Of View Movies

I believe in the redemptive need to admit mistakes, express regret, and ask for forgiveness.

Forgiveness Mistakes Believe Regret

I never liked mellow sounding guitar.

Guitar Never Mellow Liked

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Children Discipline Always Resentment

Once you get used to censorship, sometimes you self-censor.

Lucien Bourjeily

You Sometimes Censorship Used Get

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Myself I Am You Will Birth Only

With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Alex Morrow books, I wanted to do something a bit more holistic, so there were lots of different points of view, and I wanted to look at aspects of crime that you don't tend to look at.

View You Look Crime Way More

I like to go into things, and I like to make the most bold choice to tell the particular story being told.

Story Choice Bold Go Tell Things

Glibness will get your anywhere.

Will Get Anywhere Your

I keep a night light on because my room is so full at night, I can't get to sleep!

Light Sleep Night Room Keep Get

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