Quotes by : James Wright

In a pine tree,A few yards away from my window sill,A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up....

Give winter nothing; hold; and let the flake Poise or dissolve along your upheld arms. All flawless hexagons....

But I have burned already down to bone. There is a fire that burns beyond the names Of sludge and filth....

The JewelThere is this caveIn the air behind my bodyThat nobody is going to touch:A cloister, a silenceClosing....

We choose exile as a vantage point from exile we look back on the rejected

And now it is said of meThat my love is nothing because I have borne no children, Or because I have fathered....