Franz Wright
Franz Wright
Franz Wrightwas an American poet. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth18 March 1953
CountryUnited States of America
anyone isolation precisely unites
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.
came deck entirely giant infinite shuffle
I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a different book, wouldn't it? It would be one of infinite books.
considered poems ten twelve twenty wrote
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.
people quite recall saint share sure
There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I'm quite sure I will share the same fate.
The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.
bothered compose crude envied everyday life mess music normally people sort
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.
primarily
I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.
texts
Beckett's 'Stories and Texts for Nothing' is probably my favorite book.
poetry
Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.
certain conversation high lines reached realize suddenly
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.
fourth morning several third
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.'
action beyond cared caused certain collapse final lies life poets resulted
We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life.
endures human passionate poetry possesses sincere universal
Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.
belief contingent experience face god gratitude love perpetual
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.