American - Poet | March 18, 1953 - May 14, 2015
When I'm in certain moods, a conversation will start up in my head, and suddenly I'll realize that the language has reached a very high and interesting level, and then lines and stanzas will just kind of appear, full-blown.
Franz Wright
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I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it.
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It's hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my father's equal in any way.
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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.
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Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.
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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.
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I wish my father could be around.
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There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I'm quite sure I will share the same fate.
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I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.
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Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.
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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.
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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.'
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