Franz Wright Quotes

Franz Wright was an American poet. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category. Wikipedia

✵ 18. March 1953 – 14. May 2015

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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.)”

Franz Wright

Source: Walking to Martha's Vineyard

Love , Death , People , Dead

“We are created by being destroyed.”

Franz Wright

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