top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Attitude quotes
"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone."
"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."
"A healthy attitude is contagious, let others catch it."
"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."
"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."
"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."
Explore more quotes by Diane Wakoski
"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."
"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."
"High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this."
"So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way."
"I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry."
"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."
bottom of page