C.D. Wright Quotes
Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.
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All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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Stay calm and aggressive.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.
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I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.
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I had four combat tours, and I never saw death on a scale like I saw in Haiti. A quarter-million people lost their lives.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
