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We need to have a sense of patriotism like Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom first and to our nations second — Sunday Adelaja

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

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

I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the night. — Lauren Groff

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

I knew a girl so ugly, they use her in prisons to cure sex offenders. — Rodney Dangerfield

when you stop caring about how hard something is, its gets a lot easier — Aaron Lauritsen

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

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

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books. — Ellen Potter

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

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. — Bertrand Russell

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

Four liars are about to be burned
-A — Sara Shepard

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

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

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

We need to realise we are Europeans before we belong to a region or a Nation. — Janne Teller

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

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

Seeing life from an eternal perspective helps us focus our limited mortal energies on the things that matter most. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Poems come from incomplete knowledge. — Diane Wakoski

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

All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God ...
Never realizing that God is waiting for us. — Dan Brown

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