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C.D. Wright quotes: Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

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

C.D. Wright quotes: I believe the word used wrongly distorts the world.

I believe the word used wrongly distorts the world.

C.D. Wright quotes: If religion, she also liked to say, is the opiate of the masses, fundamentalism is the amphetamine.

If religion, she also liked to say, is the opiate of the masses, fundamentalism is the amphetamine.

C.D. Wright quotes: The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

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

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

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

C.D. Wright quotes: Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

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 quotes: I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in theresolution of doubts but in their proliferation

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

C.D. Wright quotes: Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.

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 quotes: Poetry is a necessity of life,

Poetry is a necessity of life,

C.D. Wright quotes: Everyone in their car needs love.

Everyone in their car needs love.