#poetry

All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above. ↗

— Brandi L. Bates

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. ↗

— Voltaire

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I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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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. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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

— Diane Wakoski

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Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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

— Diane Wakoski

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Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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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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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. ↗

— Patrick White

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