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Franz Wright quotes: I wish you all the aloneness you hunger for.

I wish you
all the aloneness you hunger for.

Franz Wright quotes: Furless now, upright, My banishedand experimentalchildYou said, though your own heart condemn youI do not condemn you.

Furless now, upright, My banished
and experimental
child
You said, though your own heart condemn you
I do not condemn you.

Franz Wright quotes: And I begin to learn.

And I begin to learn.

Franz Wright quotes: There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I'm quite sure I will share the same fate.

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 quotes: Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.

Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.

Franz Wright quotes: We are created by being destroyed.

We are created by being destroyed.

Franz Wright quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Which is more puzzling, the existence of suffering or its frequent absence?

Which is more puzzling, the existence of suffering or its frequent absence?

Franz Wright quotes: But if they were condmened to suffer this unending torment, sooner or later wouldn't they become the holy?

But if they were condmened to suffer this unending torment, sooner or later wouldn't they become the holy?

Franz Wright quotes: I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

Franz Wright quotes: It's hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my father's equal in any way.

It's hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my father's equal in any way.

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

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

Franz Wright quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I wish my father could be around.

I wish my father could be around.

Franz Wright quotes: Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.

Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.

Franz Wright quotes: So we sit there together the mountain and me, Li Po said, until only the mountain remains.

So we sit there
together
the mountain
and me, Li Po
said, until only the mountain
remains.

Franz Wright quotes: No one is a stranger, this whole world is your home

No one is a stranger, this whole world is your home

Franz Wright quotes: Everyone agrees.The dead singers have the best voices.At four o'clock in the morningthe dead singers have the best voices.

Everyone agrees.
The dead singers have the best voices.
At four o'clock in the morning
the dead singers have the best voices.

Franz Wright quotes: And let me ask you this: the dead, where aren't they?

And let me ask you this: the dead,
where aren't they?

Franz Wright quotes: Thisfinal and longlonged-for job:to be unhappywithout doing evil.

This
final and long
longed-for job:
to be unhappy
without doing
evil.

Franz Wright quotes: The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.

The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.

Franz Wright quotes: I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.

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

Franz Wright quotes: There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me.

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

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

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

Franz Wright quotes: Literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.

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

Franz Wright quotes: Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.

Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.

Franz Wright quotes: Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?

Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?

Franz Wright quotes: The road to Emmaus is this world.

The road to Emmaus is this world.