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Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they re

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I dont care thats what poetry is supposed to do. – Diane Wakoski

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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. – Diane Wakoski

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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 Shakespeares sonnets. – Diane Wakoski

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I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. – Diane Wakoski

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Poetry must be made by all and not by one. – Comte de Lautreamont

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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. – T.S. Eliot, Dante, 1920

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Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. – Richard Eyre

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Therell always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. – Philip Levine

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