Franz Wright Quotes

Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?

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.)

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.

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

I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.

I wish my father could be around.

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--

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

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

The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.

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.