Franz Wright Quotes

Franz Wright — American Poet born on March 18, 1953,

Franz Wright was 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... (wikipedia)

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

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.

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.'

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.

I wish my father could be around.

Franz Wright Quotes

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