Franz Wright quotes

I wish my father could be around. (Franz Wright)
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.) View quote
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We are created by being destroyed. View quote
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Its hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my fathers equal in any way. View quote
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Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns. View quote
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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. View quote
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What I myself experience is indescribable gratitude in the face of God's perpetual and preemptive love, a love which is not contingent upon requital or even belief in His existence. View quote
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When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.' View quote
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