Itself Poetry Quotes by C.D. Wright

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C.D. Wright has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.
• The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
• Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized…
• Everyone in their car needs love.
• One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or…
• Poetry is a necessity of life,
• It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.
• I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

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