Quote by Diane Wakoski
But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have nev

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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I think thats what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior. – Diane Wakoski

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Im perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and its all women. I always think its kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry. – Diane Wakoski

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I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeares sonnets. – Diane Wakoski

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Well, I like to write poetry. Im a published poet. – Misha Collins

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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Poetry always runs away from you – its very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it. – Abbas Kiarostami

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The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. – Paul Muldoon

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