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.

- Franz Wright

Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--

- Franz Wright

I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.

- Franz Wright

There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me.

- Franz Wright

The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.

- Franz Wright

literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.

- Franz Wright

The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.

- Franz Wright

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 myste…

- Franz Wright

I wish my father could be around.

- Franz Wright