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"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."
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"Guard yourself with a positive attitude, conviction, hope and fulfillment of your heart's desire."
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"Attitude is the most beautiful expression of a positive life."
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"If misery loves company, misery has company enough."
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"My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges."
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"A positive attitude will help fortify your courage to build unshakable confidence and healthy self-esteem."
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"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."
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"It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck."
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"A positive attitude will help you edge out cynicism and pessimism to restore hope and optimism."
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"The quality of your life hinges on your attitudes and offerings."
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"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."
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"But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way."
Poetry
"American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did."
Cultural
"One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves."
Books
"PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy."
Poetry
"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."
War
"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."
Poetry
"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."
Woman
"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."
Poetry
"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."
Poetry
"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."
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