Quotes from Diane di Prima

Poets speak truth when no one else can or will. That's why the hunger for poetry grows when the world grows dark. When repression grows, when people speak in whispers or not at all, they turn to poetry to find out what's going on.

I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life

More or Less Love Poems #11: No babe We'd never Swing together but the syncopation would be something wild

In the fifties… we were so busy being cool that we didn't know how to say the word love

The only war is the war against the imagination.