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Charles Wright Quotes

The music of memory has its own pitch,/which not everyone hears.

The music of memory has its own pitch,/which not everyone hears.

Charles Wright (2014). “Buffalo Yoga: Poems”, p.52, Macmillan

If you want great tranquility/ It's hard work and a long walk

Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.34, Macmillan

How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad. How sweet is yesterday's noise

Charles Wright (2014). “The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990”, p.43, Macmillan

The ache for anything is a thick dust in the heart.

Charles Wright (2014). “The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990”, p.95, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

All forms of landscape are autobiographical.

Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.158, Macmillan

It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

Charles Wright (2014). “The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990”, p.79, Macmillan

How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?

Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.54, Macmillan

November’s a burn and an ache.

Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.163, Macmillan