Diane Wakoski quotes - page 2

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself. (Diane Wakoski)
Learning to live with what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life. View quote
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I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was. View quote
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Poems come from incomplete knowledge. View quote
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Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's pleasure in unlocking and revealing these secrets. View quote
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American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos. View quote
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The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it. View quote
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Diane Wakoski

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Occupation: American Poet
Born: August 3, 1937
Quotes count: 32

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