I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation
C.D. WrightUniformity, 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.
C.D. WrightThe artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
C.D. WrightPoetry takes you into the recesses of the language, the neglected corners, cracks and crannies and to the big sky of wonder. It opens the door to a critique without which you have rather boring analytical tools by comparison. To cultivate poetry means to stay with it. Not to abandon hope, but to abide.
C.D. Wright