There is an idealism associated with poetry I would not dispel but question. It doesn't change anything except within. It shifts your… — C.D. Wright Audience Copy Share Image
Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified. — C.D. Wright Expression Copy Share Image
It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so. — C.D. Wright Function Copy Share Image
Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications.… — C.D. Wright Admire Copy Share Image
One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or… — C.D. Wright Add Copy Share Image
Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized… — C.D. Wright Choices Copy Share Image
“If the incision of our words amounts to nothing but a feeling, a slow motion, it will still cut a better swath… — C.D. Wright Poetry Copy Share Image
Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner… — C.D. Wright Inner life Copy Share Image
The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile. — C.D. Wright Art Copy Share Image
I have taught the long poem off and on for years. The more book-length poems I read and studied and taught the… — C.D. Wright Art Copy Share Image
I think a book-length poem stands about as good a chance as a collection of individual poems in reaching its field of… — C.D. Wright Achievement Copy Share Image
“If religion, she also liked to say, is the opiate of the masses, fundamentalism is the amphetamine.” — C.D. Wright Religion Copy Share Image
I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation — C.D. Wright Doubt Copy Share Image
Poetry takes you into the recesses of the language, the neglected corners, cracks and crannies and to the big sky of wonder.… — C.D. Wright Abandon Copy Share Image
Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees,… — C.D. Wright Consequence Copy Share Image
“Nobody reads poetry, we are told at every inopportune moment. I read poetry. I am somebody. I am the people, too. It… — C.D. Wright Hermetic Copy Share Image
