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.
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
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
It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so. - C.D. Wright
It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.
Everyone in their car needs love. - C.D. Wright
Everyone in their car needs love.
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
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.…
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
One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or symbo…
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
Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.
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
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…
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
Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within i… - C.D. Wright
Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within i…
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