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I think that's 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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I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry. Diane Wakoski
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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
Sometimes Gender Out Poetry Myths Written Geographic Context Reference Cultural American Often Race Ethnic Landscape Origins
From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not. Diane Wakoski
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I don't like political poetry, and I don't 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
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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 Shakespeare's sonnets. Diane Wakoski
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When it comes to poetry, I think partly the numbers of people attempting to write poems is probably a result or the reaction to technology. Donald Hall
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After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry. Donald Hall
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For better or worse, poetry is my life. Donald Hall
Life Better My Life Worse Poetry
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems. Donald Hall
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In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings. Donald Hall
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I was at Harvard with a whole bunch of poets, and that was very rare. They published a lot of books because there was an excitement after the war that translated into poetry. Donald Hall
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In bohemian circles, we were very aware that poetry was missing from popular culture. Donovan
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I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the bardic poetry, which came down through oral tradition. Donovan
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'Sunshine Superman' was a pioneering work that for the first time presented a fusion of Celtic, jazz, folk, rock, and Indian music as well as poetry. Donovan
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My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did. Dylan Walsh
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch. E. M. Forster
Man Seek Touch Objects Poetry Sort Resides
I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life. Eavan Boland
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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
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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. Edmund Clarence Stedman
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My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel. Edward Albee
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Daydreaming is one of the key sources of poetry - a poem often starts as a daydream that finds its way into language - and walking seems to bring a different sort of alertness, an associative kind of thinking, a drifting state of mind. Edward Hirsch
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I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry. Edward Hirsch
Life My Life Poet Spent Poetry
Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel. Edward Hirsch
You Courage Try Face Poetry Takes Feel Because How Articulate Things
I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well. Edward Hirsch
You Think Television Poetry Well Read Very While Watching Watching Television
The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone. Edward Hirsch
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