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.
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.
The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.
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