Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
— C.D. Wright Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil
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The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
— C.D. Wright Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil
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If the incision of our words amounts to nothing but a feeling, a slow motion, it will still cut a better swath than the factory model, the corporate model, the penitentiary model, which by my lights are one and the same.
— C.D. Wright Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil
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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.
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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 Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil
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I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation
— C.D. Wright Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil
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