Franz Wright Quotes
Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
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The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.
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I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
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As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
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It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at many restaurants and could only drink from water fountains marked 'Colored.' When I went to the movies, I would have to sit in the Colored balcony.
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
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The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.
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Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.
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I hate the Bible. I always did.
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Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.
