Quote by Diane Wakoski
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with a

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

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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. – Diane Wakoski

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Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of ones geographic landscape, sometimes out of ones cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. – Diane Wakoski

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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. – Diane Wakoski

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But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry. – John Drinkwater

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Well, if this is poetry, Im certainly never going to write any myself. – James Schuyler

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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. – Edmund Clarence Stedman

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