Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. – Diane Wakoski

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

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way. – Diane Wakoski