Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there is quite a racket going on. Choices have to be made with respect to every mark. Not every mistake should be erased. Nor shall the unintelligible be left out. Order is there to be wrenched from the tangles of words. Results are impossible to measure. A clearing is drawn around the perimeter as if by a stick with a nail on the end.
C.D. WrightThe artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
C.D. WrightIt is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.
C.D. Wright