Quote by C.D. Wright Download Open image ““I believe the word used wrongly distorts the world.”” — C.D. Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Cognitive distortions are exaggerated perceptions, one turns into their reality.” — RJ Intindola - - 1991 Copy Share Image
“Sometimes distortions can speak the truth. They confirm for me what is real by troubling me with something false.” — Jeffrey Overstreet Copy Share Image
“most of us do not realize that we distort our own view of the world, largely because we think we see more than we… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Today, man has been mired in invalidness up to such an extent, that being suspicious about reality isn't in his hand.” — M.H. Rakib Copy Share Image
“Wrong, wrong, absolutely brimming over with wrongability.” — Arnold J. Rimmer Red Dwarf Copy Share Image
There is an idealism associated with poetry I would not dispel but question. It doesn't change anything except within. It shifts your insides around.… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified. — C.D. Wright 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 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. Tramp poets,… — C.D. Wright 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 symbol of… — C.D. Wright 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 heart there… — C.D. Wright 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 than the… — C.D. Wright 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 life. — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile. — C.D. Wright 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 more interested… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
