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C.D. Wright Quotes

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

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

C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.61, Copper Canyon Press

It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.

C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.8, Copper Canyon Press

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.59, Copper Canyon Press

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.28, Copper Canyon Press

Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.

C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.92, Copper Canyon Press

Everyone in their car needs love.

C. D. Wright (2012). “Deepstep Come Shining”, p.12, Copper Canyon Press

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.39, Copper Canyon Press

Poetry is a necessity of life.

C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.4, Copper Canyon Press