There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I'm quite sure I will share the same fate.

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• Franz Wright:

  I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure.

• Franz Wright:

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

• Franz Wright:

  For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pr

• Franz Wright:

  When I'm in certain moods, a conversation will start up in my head, and suddenly I'll realize that

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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 h

• Franz Wright:

  I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with t

• Franz Wright:

  We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our

• Franz Wright:

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• Franz Wright:

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

• Franz Wright:

  I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could