The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on how past humiliations can lead to personal growth and grace through suffering.
Franz Wright's quote emphasizes the paradox of transformation through hardship. It suggests that the painful experiences and humiliations one faces in life are not merely obstacles but essential parts of the process that ultimately contribute to personal growth and grace. By acknowledging that we are 'created by being destroyed', Wright highlights the idea that resilience and strength often arise from our struggles and the manner in which we overcome our past.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
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.
EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence discipline and mystery The world is not illusory, we are From crimson thread to toe tag If you are not disturbed there is something seriously wrong with you, I'm sorry And I know who I am I'll be a voice coming from nowhere, inside-- be glad for me.
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'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.
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.
There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.
Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for, and always find, some theory which, a posteriori, makes their actions appear to be logical. If that theory could be demolished scientifically, the only result would be that another theory would be substituted for the first one, and for the same purpose.
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.
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