Long Silences Quotes by Franz Wright

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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…
• 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…

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