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Diane Wakoski Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: 1937

Topics

Poetry Me Voice Now Personal Always

September 11 was horrific, but I've been through enough crises before that I had my own pattern as to how to collect facts, what a leader should do, how to communicate with people, how to set up operating mechanisms to work our way through it.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Work Leader People Facts Enough Way

Everything I ever will be is because of Texas A&M University.

John Sharp

Texas Will Everything University

I just don't see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. It's more trying to express ideas and emotional textures.

Sturgill Simpson

Myself Ideas Trying Country Singer

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

Sue Kelly

Future Environmental Legacy Belief

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.

Sibel Edmonds

Responsibility Past Start Trying Own

In Hollywood, 'under development' means 'all I have is the title.'

Roger Ebert

Hollywood Development Means Title

I don't want to compare myself to anyone else, but there's Paul Smith, who I think does a great job. I feel like once I sort everything to the best quality, I'll be able to compete with them.

Rob Kardashian

Great Myself Best Quality Job Think

You need to think, when you get involved in wars, how you're going to get out of them.

Rory Kennedy

Think You Need Out Going Get

I've known since I was 12 that I wanted to write. My father was a teacher, and there were so many books around, it seemed natural to pick them up.

Michael Robotham

Father Teacher Write Up Natural

Defence is our best attack.

Jay Weatherill

Best Attack Defence Our

If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.

Jay Baruchel

Job Me Canada Up Somewhere Would

My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.

Chet Faker

Music School High School Career Said