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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I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. – 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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Poetry
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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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To have great poets there must be great audiences too. – Walt Whitman

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You dont help people in your poems. Ive been trying to help people all my life – thats my trouble. – Charles Olson

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Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know. – Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest

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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. – Laura Riding

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