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Diane Wakoski
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“Justice is / reason enough for anything ugly. It balances the beauty in the world.”
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“This book is dedicated to all those men who betrayed me at one time or another, in hopes they will fall off their motorcycles and break their necks.”
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“Poems come from incomplete knowledge.”
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“I am the rock. / The hard rock. / You can't break me.”
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“And I have not learned happily / to live with my face.”
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“Learning to live with what you're born with / is the process, / the involvement, / the making of a life.”
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“... my trouble / is that I have the spirit of Gertrude Stein / but the personality of Alice B. Toklas ...”
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“I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.”
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“Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's pleasure in unlocking and revealing these secrets.”
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“... poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization — carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language ...”
Diane Wakoski, U.S. poet
(1937)
Diane Wakoski Sherbell