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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength and the means of showing pecuniary strength and so of gaining or retaining a good name are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
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.
Quotes By Diane Wakoski
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I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the...
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I think I'm a very good reader of poetry but obviously like everybody I...
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I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal...
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I don't like political poetry and I don't write it. If this question was...
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From reading a previous answer you know that I consider all those aspects to...
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Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's...
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PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with...
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I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I...
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Because in fact women feminists do read my poetry and they read it often...
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Still language is resilient and poetry when it is pressured simply goes...
Quotes About Poetry
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He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to...
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Poetry asks people to have values form opinions care about some other part...
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For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly...
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I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good...
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All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently link by link with sweat and...
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I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.