"We know there are poets who are chosen:……" — 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 what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life."
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Franz Wright
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16 Quotes by Franz Wright
Franz Wright has 16 quotes on this site.
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The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.
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I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.
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Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?
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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.
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Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--
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This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and…
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literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.
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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…
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We are created by being destroyed.
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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…
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I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be…
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Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.
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