Quote by Diane Wakoski
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and Ame

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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But I dont think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. – 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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From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not. – Diane Wakoski

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Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. – George William Curtis

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I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry. – Lafcadio Hearn

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Poetry is a mere drug, Sir. – George Farquhar

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But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me. – Peter Davison

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