Quotes by : C.D. Wright

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

Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are....

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

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

Nobody reads poetry, we are told at every inopportune moment. I read poetry. I am somebody. I am the....

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

If the incision of our words amounts to nothing but a feeling, a slow motion, it will still cut a better....