I wish my father could be around. Franz Wright More Quotes by Franz Wright More Quotes From Franz Wright Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell. Franz Wright just-because some magic poetry For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but I wrote 'The Beforelife' within a year. Franz Wright pretty year successful years When I'm in certain moods, a conversation will start up in my head, and suddenly I'll realize that the language has reached a very high and interesting level, and then lines and stanzas will just kind of appear, full-blown. Franz Wright will start language conversation I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it. Franz Wright music language life people 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. Franz Wright beyond know action life The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux. Franz Wright interests most me prose Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book. Franz Wright favorite nothing stories book I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a different book, wouldn't it? It would be one of infinite books. Franz Wright myself you book way