Franz Wright Quotes

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• The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.
• I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.
• Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?
• The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.
• Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--
• 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.
• literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.
• 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…
• We are created by being destroyed.
• 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…
• 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…
• Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.
• I wish my father could be around.
• I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.
• 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…
• The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.

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