Quotes of 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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“ Perfect is annoying, boring, and impossible to sustain. Knowing how to translate conscientiousness into something beyond the fleeting satisfaction of “me” toward a “we” mindset is the best move you can make. ”

- Kristen Lee

“ Tuhan kan nggak mungkin langsung sedekah ke orangorang, ya kalianlah sedekah duit kalau punya duit, sedekah ilmu, sedekah senyum. Masa sih kalau sudah gitu Tuhan gak bales cintamu? Tapi gak mungkin dia belaibelai langsung rambutmu, sentuh bibirmu. Maka Tuhan ciptakan “wakil”nya, yaitu pacarmu. Maka doalah, “Tuhan, semoga pacarku ini betulbetul orang yang kau pilihkan untukku. ”

- Sujiwo Tejo

“ No matter what you do in life, make sure your juniors are learning something good from you. ”

- Parul Prashar

“ We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ”

- David Levithan

“ One day she will be mine. I am telling you. I need to have her, and she needs me. She just doesn’t know it yet. There is no one in the world that could love her the way I could. ”

- Nico J. Genes

“ Some people are not capable of loving you the way you need to be loved It might be wise to just wish them well and take care of yourself. ”

- Charles E Hudson

“ The more one judges, the less one loves. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Hmm…now that I think about it, housecats are often coddled and petted. You don’t pet me nearly enough. You must be a lax owner. How selfish of you to deprive your cat of attention. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ I can only think about the past, but I can always design the future. ”

- Davin Ferrigon

“ If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. ”

- John Lennon

“ As an African elite, look within and ask, what can I do to change the present African narratives? What niche can I carve and do my uncompromising best to lift this continent? For my sake and for the sake of my children Jumoke Odepe ”

- Jumoke Odepe

“ In love, trust is a tonic and suspicion is a poison. ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ Love is a panacea for a wound that never stops weeping. ”

- Kilroy J. Oldster

“ Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. ”

- Gary Zukav

“ All for one and one for all. ”

- Alexandre Dumas

“ Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling. ”

- Anthony de Mello

“ The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ”

- Émile Zola

“ Freedom comes from a sense of empowerment. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less. ”

- Maggie Stiefvater

“ It is easier to believe a lie than to claim parts of you that have been scattered and buried. Your willingness to search for what's been lost merely points to how immensely powerful you are. ”

- Kirstyn Lazur

“ All things are difficult before they are easy. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ”

- George Edward Woodberry