C.D. Wright Quotes
C.D. Wright Quotes
Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
2470 I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the
resolution of doubts but in their proliferation
2382 Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
1881 Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.
2795 If the incision of our words amounts to nothing but a feeling, a slow motion, it will still cut a better swath than the factory model, the corporate model, the penitentiary model, which by my lights are one and the same.
3448 The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
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