"But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way."
― Diane Wakoski
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Poetry
― Diane Wakoski
More From Diane Wakoski
- "High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this."
- "From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not."
- "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."
More In Poetry
- "In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone’s existence in this world."― Wislawa Szymborska
- "I wake up every morning feeling lucky – which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away."― Natasha Richardson
- "When you’re going through something, whether it’s a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like ‘Oh my God, I’m so overwhelmed; I’m dealing with this huge thing on my own.’ In fact, poetry’s a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences."― Caroline Kennedy