"But I don’t think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events." ― Diane Wakoski Topic(s): Poetry More From Diane Wakoski "I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc." "I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry." "PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy." More In Poetry "Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince."― H. L. Mencken "I think that it’s more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction."― Robert Morgan "One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way."― Paul Muldoon