“ 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 al… C.D. Wright
“ The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile. C.D. Wright
“ 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 a… 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 am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in theresolution of doubts but in their proliferation C.D. Wright
“ Nobody reads poetry, we are told at every inopportune moment. I read poetry. I am somebody. I am the people, too. It can be allowed that an industrious quantity of contemporary American poetry is cons… C.D. Wright
“ Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified. C.D. Wright
