Franz Wright
Poet
1953-03-18
Quotes by Franz Wright
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This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them.
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literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.
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I basked in you;I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love.And death doesn't prevent me from loving you.Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead.(I know dead people, and you are not dead.)
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And let me ask you this: the dead, where aren't they?
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literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.
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I basked in you;I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love.And death doesn't prevent me from loving you.Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead.(I know dead people, and you are not dead.)
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And let me ask you this: the dead, where aren't they?
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This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them.
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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.'
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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.
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