Franz Wright Quotes

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.)

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

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.

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

Thank You for letting me live for a little as one of the
sane; thank You for letting me know what this is
like. Thank You for letting me look at your frightening
blue sky without fear, and your terrible world without
terror, and your loveless psychotic and hopelessly
lost
with this love

Furless now, upright, My banished
and experimental
child

You said, though your own heart condemn you

I do not condemn you.