C.D. Wright

Biography

Quotes

  • Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
  • I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in theresolution of doubts but in their proliferation
  • Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
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