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21 " Writing is a risk and a trust. The best of it lies yonder. "
― C.D. Wright , Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil
22 " Poets are mostly voters and taxpayers, but the alienation of the poet is a common theme. Among poets there are also probably higher than average rates of clutch burnout, job turnover, rooting about, sleep apnea, noncompliance, nervous leg syndrome, depression, litigation, black clothing, and so forth, but this is where we live, or as Leonard Cohen put it, poetry is the opiate of the poets. "
23 " Lead me, guide me to the light of your paper. Keep me in your arc of acuity. And when the ream is spent. Write a poem on my back. I’ll never wash it off. "
― C.D. Wright , Deepstep Come Shining
24 " As in all callings, poetry secures a kind of ecstasis. There may be a wiser vantage, but we haven’t discovered one yet. Perception leads to further perception. Perceive. Perceive. “See what the grass would see if it had eyes,” writes Oppen. "
