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.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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Conquering the world with words, leading the children like herds.
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For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").
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I support religious liberty, but I also think it is very important as a Republican Party that we bring a compassionate tone when talking about women's health care issues, when we talk about pro-life and pro-choice.
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No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.
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When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its course it is a natural and not unhappy thing that a life comes to its end.
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Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
