“What I would say is this: writing poems doesn't make you a poet. … It is only with poetry, for some reason,… — Franz Wright Art Copy Share Image
The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux. — Franz Wright Interests Copy Share Image
Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book. — Franz Wright Book Copy Share Image
We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final… — Franz Wright Action Copy Share Image
“If only I could tell someone. The humiliation I go through when I think of my past can only be described as… — Franz Wright Death Copy Share Image
“Think of it: a writer actually possesses the power to alter his past, to change what was once experienced as defeat into… — Franz Wright Failure Copy Share Image
Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche? — Franz Wright Avalanches Copy Share Image
Its hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my fathers equal in any way. — Franz Wright Equal Copy Share Image
I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing… — Franz Wright Book Copy Share Image
“You gave me in secret one thing to perceive, the tall blue starry strangeness of being here at all.” — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“The all-night convenience store's empty and no one is behind the counter. You open and shut the glass door a few times… — Franz Wright Good thing Copy Share Image
“...this final and long longed-for job: to be unhappy without doing evil.” — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what… — Franz Wright Am Copy Share Image
Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell. — Franz Wright Because Copy Share Image
I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess… — Franz Wright Always Copy Share Image
EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence… — Franz Wright Couple Copy Share Image
I basked in you; I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn't prevent me from loving you. Besides,… — Franz Wright Dead people Copy Share Image
“P.S." I close my eyes and see a seagull in the desert, high, against unbearably blue sky. There is hope in the… — Franz Wright Blue sky Copy Share Image
Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it-- — Franz Wright Books Copy Share Image
When I'm in certain moods, a conversation will start up in my head, and suddenly I'll realize that the language has reached… — Franz Wright Appear Copy Share Image
