Expression Quote by C.D. Wright

“Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going…” quote by C.D. Wright — Download Open image

“Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.”

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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.…

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It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.

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Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets,…

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“I believe the word used wrongly distorts the world.”

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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…

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Poetry is a necessity of life,

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Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there…

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“If the incision of our words amounts to nothing but a feeling, a slow motion, it will still cut a better swath than the…

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Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

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The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

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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…

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