"Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we……" — C.D. Wright

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

— C.D. Wright

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12 Quotes by C.D. Wright

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…
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…
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…
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
Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in…
Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of…
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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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you… — Mary Kay Ash
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria. — Bashar al-Assad
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden
Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular… — Charles Babbage
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as… — Francis Bacon
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to… — Joan Baez
When I die I want to go to Vogue. — David Bailey
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. — Honore de Balzac

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