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Celestina Giuliani learned the word "slander" at her cousin's baptism. — Mary Doria Russell

I don't think there's anything remotely "new" or "experimental" about any modern metal bands. — Mat McNerney

True sportsmanship is excellence in motion! — Lorii Myers

It's HE-RO," the boy argued. "No," the girl insisted, "it's HER-O. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. — Diane Wakoski

I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was. — Diane Wakoski

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos. — Diane Wakoski

I am not political as a person. — Diane Wakoski

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. — Diane Wakoski

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way. — Diane Wakoski

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did. — Diane Wakoski

Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization
carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language ... — Diane Wakoski

Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today. — Diane Wakoski

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life. — Diane Wakoski

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. — Diane Wakoski

It was hard for them to accuse their wives of infidelity when their rival was an invisible man. — Diane Wakoski

I grew up
where the family of butterflies
the Silver Cloud
is native. — Diane Wakoski

Albert Einstein: 'We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.'" He — Cecelia Ahern

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. — Diane Wakoski

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance. — Diane Wakoski

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it. — Diane Wakoski

Poems come from incomplete knowledge. — Diane Wakoski

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. — Diane Wakoski

We have outsmarted ourselves, like greedy monkeys, and now we are full of dread. — Peter Matthiessen

I also have a routine with breathing and visualization techniques that I go through when I feel overwhelmed or nervous. — Amanda Schull

It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass. — Michael Haneke

Innocence is suffering
and the loss of that innocence
is something to fear. — Diane Wakoski