Top 16 Quotes by Franz Wright

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.

Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.

It's hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my father's equal in any way.

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

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

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 write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

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

I wish my father could be around.