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Diane Wakoski Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: 1937

Topics

Myself I Am Me Tradition Long Line

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

Joan Baez

Happy End You White Know Despair

I think there is often a 'what if' proposition that gets me thinking about all my novels.

John Irving

Me Think Thinking What If I Think

If Darwin's theories are true, then we have within us the physical memory of when we were fish or apes.

Robert Lepage

Memory Fish True Within Us Physical

What is dreaming, and what happens, and are there any real benefits to dreaming? Well, to take a step back, I think it's important to note that dreaming essentially is a time when we all become flagrantly psychotic.

Matthew Walker

Time Step Think Back Important Real

I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.

Andy Stern

Success Labor Say Movement Workers

I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.

Travis Barker

Everything Like He Did Many Dan

The one thing I'm not tempted to ever do is stop working. Retirement would be too tough for me. As a workaholic and an insomniac, I identified with my subject, General Dumas, who, according to field reports, would ride on patrols without sleep sometimes for two nights on end before going into battle - and winning.

Tom Reiss

Ride Sleep Me Winning Retirement

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

Rita Ora

Spanish Mistaken Often Latin Descent

We're like everybody else. We hurt like everybody.

Rozonda Thomas

Hurt Like Everybody Everybody Else

Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one.

Mary Bono

Loved Earn Only Again Assets Those

I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se.

Mick Jones

Guitar Never Player Really Virtuoso

Americans have been hurting, but when we demanded solutions, too often Washington responded with the same stale mindset that led to failed policies like Obamacare. It's a mindset that gave us political talking points, not serious solutions.

Joni Ernst

Mindset Political Talking Serious Us