10+ C.D. Wright Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best C.D. Wright quotes and sayings.

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

Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein. — C.D. Wright

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

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

Everyone in their car needs love. — C.D. Wright

Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances. — C.D. Wright

Poetry is a necessity of life. — C.D. Wright

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

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

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation — C.D. Wright