My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.
More Quotes from Diane Wakoski:
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.Diane Wakoski
I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm 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 doesn't work and why.
Diane Wakoski
Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.
Diane Wakoski
I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's 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
Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.
Diane Wakoski
Learning to live with what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.
Diane Wakoski
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Literature Quotes, Poetry QuotesBased on Keywords: diane
The 'movement' is paramount, the concept of 'family' is the symbol we wish to project.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.
Robert Indiana
Are you living for the things you are praying for?
Austin Phelps