Carolyn D. Wright Quotes

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

Carolyn D. Wright

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

Carolyn D. Wright

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

Carolyn 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.

Carolyn D. Wright

Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.

Carolyn D. Wright

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

Carolyn 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.

Carolyn 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.

Carolyn D. Wright

Carolyn D. Wright

Carolyn D. Wright

Born: January 6, 1949

Died: January 12, 2016 (aged 67)

Bio: Carolyn D. "C. D." Wright was an American poet.

Known for:

One with Others (2010)
One Big Self: An Investigation (2007)
Deepstep come shining (1998)
Rising, Falling, Hovering (2008)

Carolyn D. Wright on Wikipedia

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