Quote by Diane Wakoski
I think Im a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like every

I think Im a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and Im not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesnt work and why. – Diane Wakoski

Other quotes by Diane Wakoski

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

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote

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

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote

I dont like political poetry, and I dont write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. – Diane Wakoski

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

I found that it wasnt so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, theyre kindred spirits. – J. Carter Brown

Category:
Poetry

I didnt want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months. – Tom Wesselmann

Category:
Poetry

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. – Edith Hamilton

Category:
Poetry

Im not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well. – Andrew Motion

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid. – Audre Lorde

Category:
strength

Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain. – Proverb

Category:
Marriage

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. – Lily Tomlin

Category:
funny

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. – Benjamin Jowett

Category:
Business