"I am suggesting that the radical of poetry……" — C.D. Wright
"I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation"
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12 Quotes by C.D. Wright
C.D. Wright has 12 quotes on this site.
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Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one…
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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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Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within…
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Everyone in their car needs love.
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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…
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Poetry is a necessity of life,
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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…
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Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of…
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Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
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Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy…
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More Doubt Quotes
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There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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I want to state unequivocally for the world, as well as for the markets, as well as for the American…
— Michele Bachmann
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to…
— Christian Bale
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Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
— Hosea Ballou
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Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.
— John Banville
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
— William Barclay
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
— Henry Adams
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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to…
— John Adams
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The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would…
— Dave Barry
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend…
— Ethel Barrymore
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