"Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much……" — C.D. Wright
"Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life."
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C.D. Wright
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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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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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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 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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