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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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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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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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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In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc. – Juan Goytisolo

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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. – James Joyce

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The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. – William Shenstone

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There is often as much poetry between the lines of a poem as in those lines. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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