"American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet."
― Diane Wakoski
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Poetry
― Diane Wakoski
More From Diane Wakoski
- "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."
- "But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way."
- "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."
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- "There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home."― Kenny Guinn
- "Poetry is composing for the breath."― Peter Davison
- "We don’t attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry."― James Laughlin