Diane Wakoski Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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  Power, Feminist, Political

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• American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

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  Individuality, Literature, Painting

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• The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it.

  Diane Wakoski

  Editors, Needs, Pages

  Diane Wakoski (1980). “Toward a new poetry”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your nervous breakdown, being irresponsible about money.

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  Drinking, Drug, Too Much

  Diane Wakoski (1988). “Emerald Ice: Selected Poems, 1962-1987”, p.162, David R. Godine Publisher

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• My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.

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  Women, Thinking, Problem

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• But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

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  Political, Events, Way

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• One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.

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  Book, Numbers, Long

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• 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.

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  Acceptance, Stuff, Good Work

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• Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive.

  Diane Wakoski

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

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  People, Events, Watches

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• Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.

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  Literature, Today, Language

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• I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

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  Passing On, Long, Literature

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• I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.

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  Reading, Thinking, People

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• 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.

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  Voice, Literature, Narrative

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