Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
— C.D. Wright
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About Me
- Iris Moulton
- Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- Iris Moulton is a writer born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her first collection of poetry, where the echoes go, was published on PUSH! Publications in 2005. She currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas where she is an MFA candidate in Poetry and Short Fiction at the University of Kansas. She toured with The Crate Lung Co-Op along with several musicians and visual artists during the winter of 2008-09.
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1 comments:
I have thought about this quote. And I agree. Do you think there are perhaps a couple of kinds of intensity? Or that the intensity is provoked by a couple of core responses to death--one of them being a desire to transcend death and another being a desire to live more intensely now? Fear is only a small part of that response. I don't think fear motivates people to create in the same way faith does, faith in life following death or faith in the power of a greater life lived now. Or both. What do you think? Why did you post the quote?
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