Charles Wright quotes
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“The music of memory has its own pitch,/which not everyone hears.”
-- Charles WrightSource : Charles Wright (2014). “Buffalo Yoga: Poems”, p.52, Macmillan
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“How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad. How sweet is yesterday's noise”
-- Charles WrightSource : Charles Wright (2014). “The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990”, p.43, Macmillan
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“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.”
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“Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world. Morning arrives and that's it. Sunlight darkens the earth.”
-- Charles WrightSource : Charles Wright (2004). “Snake eyes”
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“The ache for anything is a thick dust in the heart.”
-- Charles WrightSource : Charles Wright (2014). “The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990”, p.95, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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“Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride.”
-- Charles WrightSource : Charles Wright (2014). “Littlefoot: A Poem”, p.80, Macmillan
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“If you want great tranquility/ It's hard work and a long walk”
-- Charles WrightSource : Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.34, Macmillan
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“All forms of landscape are autobiographical,”
-- Charles WrightSource : Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.158, Macmillan
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“Snub end of a dismal year, deep in the dwarf orchard, The sky with its undercoat of blackwash and point stars, I stand in the dark and answer to My life, this shirt I want to take off, which is on fire . . .”
-- Charles WrightSource : Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.4, Macmillan
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“How many years have slipped through our hands? At least as many as the constellations we still can identify. The quarter moon, like a light skiff, floats out of the mist-remnant Of last night hard rain. It, too, will slip through our fingers with no ripple, without us in it”
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“How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?”
-- Charles WrightSource : Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.54, Macmillan
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“It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.”
-- Charles WrightSource : Charles Wright (2014). “The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990”, p.79, Macmillan
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“What makes us leave what we love best? What is it inside us that keeps erasing itself When we need it most, That sends us into uncertainty for its own sake And holds us flush there until we begin to love it And have to begin again? What is it within our own lives we decline to live Whenever we find it, making our days unendurable, And nights almost visionless? I still don't know yet, but I do it.”
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“It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.”
-- Charles WrightSource : Charles Wright (2014). “Littlefoot: A Poem”, p.9, Macmillan
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“We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride. Sometimes I can't sit still for all the asininities I read. Give me the hummingbird, who has to eat sixty times His own weight a day just to stay alive. Now that's a life on the edge.”
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“I empty myself with light Until I become morning.”
-- Charles Wright
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