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I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use

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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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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I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. – 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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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of ones geographic landscape, sometimes out of ones cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. – Diane Wakoski

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I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if hes going to write poetry or songs. – Roger Waters

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Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. – Peter Davison

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