Franz Wright Quotes

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

  Franz Wright

  Heart, Body, Mercy

  Franz Wright (2009). “Walking to Martha's Vineyard”, p.10, Knopf

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

  Franz Wright

  Long, Silence, Needs

  Franz Wright (2009). “God's Silence”, p.8, Knopf

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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 you. Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead. (I know dead people, and you are not dead.)

  Franz Wright

  People, Loving You, Tongue

  Franz Wright (1993). “The night world and the word night: poems”, Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr

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

  Franz Wright

  Distance, Believe, One Day

  Franz Wright (2009). “Walking to Martha's Vineyard”, p.30, Knopf

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

  Franz Wright

  Inspiration, May, Results

  Franz Wright (2009). “God's Silence”, p.116, Knopf

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• 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.

  Franz Wright

  Believe, Home, Heart

  Franz Wright (2009). “God's Silence”, p.5, Knopf

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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.

  Franz Wright

  Past, Thinking, Grace

  Franz Wright (2009). “Walking to Martha's Vineyard”, p.56, Knopf

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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 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

  Sorry, Couple, Who I Am

  Franz Wright (2009). “Walking to Martha's Vineyard”, p.89, Knopf

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

  Franz Wright

  Winning, Worry, Literature

  Franz Wright (2009). “God's Silence”, p.31, Knopf

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• Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?

  Franz Wright

  Avalanches, Snowflake, Individual

  Franz Wright (2011). “Wheeling Motel”, p.12, Knopf

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• 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

  Eye, Adults, Looks

  Franz Wright (2013). “Kindertotenwald”, p.9, Knopf

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• We are created by being destroyed.

  Franz Wright

  Destroyed

  Franz Wright (2009). “Walking to Martha's Vineyard”, p.56, Knopf

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

  Franz Wright

  Father, Might, Way

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• I wish you
  all the aloneness you hunger for.

  Franz Wright

  Wish, Hunger, Wish You

  Franz Wright, “Our Conversation”

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• I wish my father could be around.

  Franz Wright

  Father, Wish

  "Sketches of the Winners", www.nytimes.com. April 6, 2004.

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