"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 definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry." "High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this." "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 "No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."― Horace "I always believe it’s better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do."― Trevor Nunn "Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science."― Thomas Huxley