Charles Wright Quotes

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• It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.
• How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?
• The music of memory has its own pitch,/which not everyone hears.
• How many years have slipped through our hands?
At least as many as the constellations we still can identify.
The quarter moon, like a light skiff,
 …
• All forms of landscape are autobiographical,
• If you want great tranquility/ It's hard work and a long walk
• The ache for anything is a thick dust in the heart.
• Poetry is the dark side of the moon,
• November’s a burn and an ache.
• It’s up there, and you can see the front of it. But what it is isn’t what you’re looking at. It’s behind what you’re looking…
• Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world. Morning arrives and that's it. Sunlight darkens the earth.
• We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone knows…
• It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.
• What makes us leave what we love best? What is it inside us that keeps erasing itself When we need it most, That sends us…

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