I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.
Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us the sounds of the streets and the sou… - Diane Di Prima
Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They bring us the sounds of the streets and the sou…
- Diane Di Prima
In the fifties… we were so busy being cool that we didn’t know how to say the word love - Diane Di Prima
In the fifties… we were so busy being cool that we didn’t know how to say the word love
More or Less Love Poems #11: No babe We'd never Swing together but the syncopation would be something wild - Diane Di Prima
More or Less Love Poems #11: No babe We'd never Swing together but the syncopation would be something wild
I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life - Diane Di Prima
I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life
It is still news to her that passion could steer her wrong though she went down, a thousand times strung out across railroad tracks, off bridges unde… - Diane Di Prima
It is still news to her that passion could steer her wrong though she went down, a thousand times strung out across railroad tracks, off bridges unde…
Sweetheart, when you break thru you'll find a poet here, not quite what one would choose. - Diane Di Prima
Sweetheart, when you break thru you'll find a poet here, not quite what one would choose.
I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shap… - Diane Di Prima
I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shap…
The only war is the war against the imagination. - Diane Di Prima
The only war is the war against the imagination.
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