Quotes by Franz Wright - Page 1

I wish my father could be around.
Franz Wright / Poet
Father
Wish
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We are created by being destroyed.
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I wish you all the aloneness you hunger for.
Franz Wright / Poet
Hunger
Wish
Wish You
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There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me.
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Body
Heart
Mercy
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literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.
Franz Wright / Poet
Literature
Winning
Worry
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I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.
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Primarily
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The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.
Franz Wright / Poet
Poetic
Prose
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Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.
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Beckett
Texts
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I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.
Franz Wright / Poet
Believe
Distance
One Day
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Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?
Franz Wright / Poet
Avalanches
Individual
Snowflake
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Its hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my fathers equal in any way.
Franz Wright / Poet
Father
Might
Way
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It's hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my father's equal in any way.
Franz Wright / Poet
Equal
Me Father Way
Father Me Way
Grasp
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Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.
Franz Wright / Poet
Magic
Spell
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The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.
Franz Wright / Poet
Long
Needs
Silence
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There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I'm quite sure I will share the same fate.
Franz Wright / Poet
Fate
Saint
Monster
Recall
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Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--
Franz Wright / Poet
Inspiration
May
Results
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The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.
Franz Wright / Poet
Grace
Past
Thinking
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This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them.
Franz Wright / Poet
Adults
Eye
Looks
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Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.
Franz Wright / Poet
Articulating
Clarity
Sincere
Concerns
Endures
Possesses
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I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with everyone.
Franz Wright / Poet
Isolation
I Am Me May
I Am Me Way
Anyone Else
Precisely
Predicament
Unites
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For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but I wrote 'The Beforelife' within a year.
Franz Wright / Poet
Twelve
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What I myself experience is indescribable gratitude in the face of God's perpetual and preemptive love, a love which is not contingent upon requital or even belief in His existence.
Franz Wright / Poet
Gratitude
Indescribable
Perpetual
Love God Experience
Contingent
Preemptive
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And the night smells like snow. Walking home for a moment you almost believe you could start again. And an intense love rushes to your heart, and hope. It’s unendurable, unendurable.
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Home
Believe
Heart
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I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it.
Franz Wright / Poet
Bothered
Crude
Envied
Everyday
Everyday Life
Mess
Paint
Life Music Always
Life Music People
Compose
Normally
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I basked in you; I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn't prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead. (I know dead people, and you are not dead.)
Franz Wright / Poet
Loving You
People
Tongue
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When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.'
Franz Wright / Poet
Fourth
Iliad
Nine
Odyssey
Grade
Homer
Started Reading
Third
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When I'm in certain moods, a conversation will start up in my head, and suddenly I'll realize that the language has reached a very high and interesting level, and then lines and stanzas will just kind of appear, full-blown.
Franz Wright / Poet
Conversation
Appear
Just Kind
Moods
Reached
Suddenly
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We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life.
Franz Wright / Poet
Chosen
Collapse
Fulfillment
Caused
Cared
Desecration
Poets
Resulted
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I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a different book, wouldn't it? It would be one of infinite books.
Franz Wright / Poet
Cards
Comfort
Deck
Infinite
Pages
Shuffle
Entirely
Giant
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EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence discipline and mystery The world is not illusory, we are From crimson thread to toe tag If you are not disturbed there is something seriously wrong with you, I'm sorry And I know who I am I'll be a voice coming from nowhere, inside-- be glad for me.
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Couple
Sorry
Who I Am
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