Franz Wright Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I wish my father could be around.”

“The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.”

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

“For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but I wrote 'The Beforelife' within a year.”

“I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a different book, wouldn't it? It would be one of infinite books.”

“When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.'”