Funny Quote by C.D. Wright Download Open image “Poetry is a necessity of life,” — C.D. Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funny Inspirational Life Love Poetry Poetry is
Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. — Mark Strand 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
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look at my awesome twitter followers & think to myself, What the hell would I do without them :) — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Facebook on going public with all my private information... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image