Franz Wright Quotes

There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me.

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.)

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.

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.

Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--

The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.

literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.

We are created by being destroyed.

And the night smells like snow. Walking home for a moment you almost believe you could start again. And an intense love rushes to your heart, and hope. It’s unendurable, unendurable.

Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?

Its hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my fathers equal in any way.

I wish you all the aloneness you hunger for.

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.

I wish my father could be around.