Quotation by Carolyn D. Wright:

Nobody reads poetry, we are told at every inopportune moment. I read poetry. I am somebody. I am the people, too [...] If I wanted to understand a culture, my own for instance, and if I thought such an understanding were the basis for a lifelong inquiry, I would turn to poetry first. For it is my confirmed bias that the poets remain the most 'stunned by existence,' the most determined to redeem the world in words.

Carolyn D. Wright     (more by this author)

Type: Prose
Context: Unknown
Context Details: Taken from Google's Daily Literary Quote.