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"I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc."

Diane Wakoski on Attitude

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• "Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life."

  Joel Osteen on Attitude

• "My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength."

  Michael Jordan on Attitude

• "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

  Albert Einstein on Attitude

• "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

  Thomas Jefferson on Attitude

• "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

  Winston Churchill on Attitude

More quotes by Diane Wakoski

• "I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc."

• "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."

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

• "But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way."

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