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Poetry Quotes by C.D. Wright
- Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there is…
- 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
- Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
- Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
- Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the…
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