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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.

~Franz Wright

Topics: Am Anyone Anyone Else Different Else Everyone Isolation May Me Precisely Predicament Sense Unites Way I Am

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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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Topics: Any Equal Father Grasp Hard Me Might Somehow Way

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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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Topics: Clarity Concerns Endures Human Passionate Poetry Possesses Service Sincere Universal

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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.

~Franz Wright

Topics: Belief Contingent Even Existence Experience Face God Gratitude His Indescribable Love Myself Perpetual Which

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I wish my father could be around.

~Franz Wright

Topics: Around Could Father Wish I Wish

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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.

~Franz Wright

Topics: Fate Father Monster People Quite Recall Saint Same Share Sure Who Will

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I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

~Franz Wright

Topics: Done Personal Pleasure Primarily Write I Write

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

~Franz Wright

Topics: Because Just Just Because Kind Magic Mean Poetry Some 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.

~Franz Wright

Topics: About Considered Poems Pretty Successful Ten Twelve Twenty Within Write Wrote Year Years

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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

Topics: Appear Certain Conversation Head High Interesting Just Just Kind Kind Language Level Lines Moods Reached Realize Start Suddenly Then Up Very Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: March 18th, 1953

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