Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell. Franz Wright More Quotes by Franz Wright More Quotes From Franz Wright There is only one heart in my body, have mercy Franz Wright bodymercyheart The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time. Franz Wright silencelongneeds 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 you aren't dead. (I know dead people, and you are not dead.) Franz Wright loving-youtonguepeople Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it-- Franz Wright resultsinspirationmay 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 The world is not illusory, we are From crimson thread to toe tag If you are not disturbed there is something seriously wrong with you, I'm sorry And I know who I am I'll be a voice coming from nowhere, inside-- be glad for me. Franz Wright who-i-amcouplesorry literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry. Franz Wright literaturewinningworry And the night smells like snow. Franz Wright homeheartbelieve The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed. Franz Wright gracepastthinking I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear. Franz Wright distanceone-daybelieve We are created by being destroyed. Franz Wright destroyed I wish my father could be around. Franz Wright wishfather Its hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my fathers equal in any way. Franz Wright mightfatherway I wish you Franz Wright hungerwish-youwish Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche? Franz Wright avalanchessnowflakeindividual 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. Franz Wright adultseyelooks 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 everyone. Franz Wright everyonei-ammeway When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.' Franz Wright goreadingmorningschool Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns. Franz Wright humanserviceclaritypoetry What I myself experience is indescribable gratitude in the face of God's perpetual and preemptive love, a love which is not contingent upon requital or even belief in His existence. Franz Wright myselfgratitudegodlove There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I'm quite sure I will share the same fate. Franz Wright willfatefatherpeople
