38 Quotes by Franz Wright

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

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

For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but I wrote 'The Beforelife' within a year.

I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a different book, wouldn't it? It would be one of infinite books.

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

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.

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

Should each individual snowflake be held accountable for the avalanche?

I wish you all the aloneness you hunger for.