Top 16 Quotes by Franz Wright

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

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

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

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.

I wish my father could be around.

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.