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“Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.”

Diane Wakoski · Poetry

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

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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.

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

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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.

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