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.

C.D. Wright

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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.

  

  C.D. Wright
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Seems