Charles Wright Quotes

United States, Poet
August 25, 1935

Charles Wright is an American poet. He shared the National Book Award in 1983 for Country Music: Selected Early Poems and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for Black Zodiac. In 2014-2015 he was the 50th Poet Laureate of the United States.

It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.

Charles Wright
Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world. Morning arrives and that's it. Sunlight darkens the earth.

Charles Wright
- Morning
- Dreams
- Sunlight

Poetry is the dark side of the moon.

Charles Wright
- Poetry
- Moon
- Side
It’s up there, and you can see the front of it. But what it is isn’t what you’re looking at. It’s behind what you’re looking at.

Charles Wright
- Looking
- Behind
- Front
How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad. How sweet is yesterday's noise

Charles Wright
- Past
- Sweet
- Noise
The music of memory has its own pitch,which not everyone hears.

Charles Wright
- Music
- Pitch
- Hears
It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

Charles Wright
- Past
- Lock
- Linkage
If you want great tranquility. It's hard work and a long walk

Charles Wright
- Work
- Walk
- Tranquility

The ache for anything is a thick dust in the heart.

Charles Wright
- Heart
- Dust
- Ache
Some people have everything Other people don't But everything don't mean a thing If it ain't the thing you want

Charles Wright
- People
- Want
- Have