Quote by Diane Wakoski
But I dont think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word

But I dont think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. – 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 think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poets language at that point in history, and so its 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. – Diane Wakoski

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

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I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it. – Carol Ann Duffy

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When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you cant teach poetry. This is ridiculous. – Norman MacCaig

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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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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. – Mark Strand

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