"Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground."
― Diane Wakoski
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Poetry
― Diane Wakoski
More From Diane Wakoski
- "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."
- "I’m perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it’s all women. I always think it’s kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry."
- "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
- "When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images."― Niels Bohr
- "When I’m not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I’m not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I’m reading books about history, computers, or embroidery."― Lynn Abbey
- "It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms."― John Millington Synge