James Wright Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: December 13, 1927 - March 25, 1980
Birthday: December 13
Death: March 25
In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.
source: James Wright (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.125, Wesleyan University Press
topic: Blue, Laughing, Tree, Pine Trees, Blue Jays
