“I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and...” — Diane Wakoski Quote

“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.”

“Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.”

“Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding on and letting go.”

“We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.”

“...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.”