"It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so."

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Source : C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.8, Copper Canyon Press

C.D. Wright

#Would Be Quotes #Function Quotes #Zone Quotes

“When I look at founders and CEOs like Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Brian Chesky at Airbnb and Sebastian Thrun at Udacity, these are companies that are creating extraordinary social good and extraordinary economic and educational empowerment, all within with context of a for-profit model.”
“Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.”
“I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.”
“I can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.”
“a writer once asked what I'd say if i ever met my biggest hater. I paused, thought deeply and said, "probably 'suk a dog dik, motherfuker”

Source : Ezra Koenig @arzE, twitter.com. May 10, 2013.
“Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.”
“I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.”
“I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.”

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