"Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a……" — 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 quite a racket going on. Choices have to be made with respect to every mark. Not every mistake should be erased. Nor shall the unintelligible be left out. Order is there to be wrenched from the tangles of words. Results are impossible to measure. A clearing is drawn around the perimeter as if by a stick with a nail on the end."
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12 Quotes by C.D. Wright
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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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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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I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation
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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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Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice…
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