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Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities. " At Berkshire our only style box is "smart. "

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Diane Wakoski

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

Current, Events, Good, Thinking, Use, Venue
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I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

Point, Pointing, Political, Think, Thinking, Writing

Innocence is suffering and the loss of that innocence is something to fear.

Fear, Innocence, Loss, Suffering

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

Poetry, Thinking, Women, Write, Writing

What line breaks add to prose prosody is a connection between eye and ear which emphasizes the nature of the language by. . . creating units of intent and emphasis, and by contouring the meloding pitch changes in the narrative-line.

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My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.

Diane, Identify, Poems, Problem, Thinking, Women
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