Quotes from Franz Wright

The Poem" It was like getting a love letter from a tree Eyes closed forever to find you– There is a life which if I could have it I would have chosen for myself from the beginning

I will place my hand in that flame and feel nothing.

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.

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

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.

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

If only I could tell someone.The humiliation I go throughwhen I think of my pastcan only be described as grace.We are created by being destroyed.