#poe

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. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#attitudes #away #beauty #because #certain

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. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#almost #complex #even #exciting #great

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. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#bogus #celebrates #general #good #good work

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

#been #before #black #cause #correct

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#could #discreetly #got #half #known

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#greek #lasting #latin #marble #must

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#beautiful #beautiful way #exchanging #harmony #laborious

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#character #comedy #diversified #even #great

No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#could #lib #like #peter #poetic

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#capacity #end #in the end #life #light