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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. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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

— Diane Wakoski

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I am not political as a person. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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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. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know. ↗

— George Wald

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I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. ↗

— George Wald

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The concept of war crimes is an American invention. ↗

— George Wald

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The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful. ↗

— George Wald

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The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that. ↗

— George Wald

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