“To speak in a flat voice Is all that I can do. I have gone every place Asking for you. Wondering where… — James Wright Years ago Copy Share Image
“ A Blessing Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota, Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass. And the eyes of those… — James Wright Barbed wire Copy Share Image
There is this cave In the air behind my body That nobody is going to touch: A cloister, a silence Closing around… — James Wright Air Copy Share Image
Suddenly I realize That if I stepped out of my body I would break Into blossom. — James Wright Body Copy Share Image
Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes. — James Wright Animal Copy Share Image
“And then, when noon comes, Each stranger Has no room left in the light Except for only his hands. Here are mine.… — James Wright Trees Copy Share Image
Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota — James Wright Farms Copy Share Image
Look: I am nothing. I do not even have ashes to rub into my eyes. — James Wright Ashes Copy Share Image
“Good evening charlie, yes I know you rise, two lean grey spiders drifting through your eyes.” — james wright Good evening Copy Share Image
“In a pine tree, A few yards away from my window sill, A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up… — James Wright Abandon Copy Share Image
I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book,… — James Wright Abundance Copy Share Image
Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources. — James Wright Clean Copy Share Image
I asked the Mesquite coach who he thought the best team in Mesquite is. He said they were about even. — James Wright Best team Copy Share Image
Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it. — James Wright Alive Copy Share Image
“Give winter nothing; hold; and let the flake Poise or dissolve along your upheld arms. All flawless hexagons may melt and break;… — James Wright Poem Copy Share Image
“Across the road, tadpoles are dancing on the quarter thumbnail of the moon. They cant see, not yet.” — James Wright Copy Share Image
In life, you gotta do something. And the medical journals keep on saying if you've got a goal or some passion in… — James Wright Accountants Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel. — James Wright Books Copy Share Image
“In the Shreve High football stadium, I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville, And gray faces of Negroes in the… — James Wright Copy Share Image
“We choose exile as a vantage point; from exile we look back on the rejected” — James Wright Existentialism-meaning-in-life Copy Share Image
“And now it is said of me That my love is nothing because I have borne no children, Or because I have… — James Wright Children Copy Share Image
They can buy whatever brand they want. We will supply the finance. — James Wright Brands Copy Share Image
“Love is a cliff, A clear, cold curve of stone, mottled by stars, Smirched by the morning, carved by the dark sea… — James Wright Love Copy Share Image
