So we sit there together the mountain and me, Li Po said…

“What I would say is this: writing poems doesn't make you a poet. … It is only with poetry, for some reason, that everyone…

— Franz Wright

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

— Franz Wright

The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.

— Franz Wright

Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.

— Franz Wright

We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or…

— Franz Wright

“If only I could tell someone. The humiliation I go through when I think of my past can only be described as grace. We…

— Franz Wright

I wish you all the aloneness you hunger for.

— Franz Wright

“Think of it: a writer actually possesses the power to alter his past, to change what was once experienced as defeat into victory and…

— Franz Wright

“The road to Emmaus is this world.”

— Franz Wright

Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?

— Franz Wright

There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me.

— Franz Wright

Its hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my fathers equal in any way.

— Franz Wright

I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way…

— Franz Wright

“You gave me in secret one thing to perceive, the tall blue starry strangeness of being here at all.”

— Franz Wright

“The all-night convenience store's empty and no one is behind the counter. You open and shut the glass door a few times causing a…

— Franz Wright