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…

- C.D. Wright

Everyone in their car needs love.

- 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

One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or symbo…

- C.D. Wright

There is an idealism associated with poetry I would not dispel but question. It doesn't change anything except within. It shifts your insides around.…

- 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

I have taught the long poem off and on for years. The more book-length poems I read and studied and taught the more interested I was in the possibili…

- C.D. Wright

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within i…

- C.D. Wright