C.D. Wright Quotes

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• Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.
• The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
• Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there is…
• Everyone in their car needs love.
• One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or symbol of status…
• Poetry is a necessity of life,
• It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.
• I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation
• Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there…
• Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
• Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
• Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the…

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