Quote by Diane Wakoski
I dont like political poetry, and I dont write it. If this questio

I dont like political poetry, and I dont write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. – Diane Wakoski

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I think thats what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior. – Diane Wakoski

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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. – Diane Wakoski

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High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. – Diane Wakoski

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I never thought Id be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas. – Caroline Kennedy

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Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. – John Keats

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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. – Carl Sandburg

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