C.D. Wright, Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil Quotes
Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in theresolution of doubts but in their proliferation