God's Silence Quotes

“The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.”
― Franz Wright, God's Silence

“And let me ask you this: the dead,
where aren't they?”
― Franz Wright, God's Silence

“literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.”
― Franz Wright, God's Silence

“So we sit there
together
the mountain
and me, Li Po
said, until only the mountain
remains.”
― Franz Wright, God's Silence

“The road to Emmaus is this world.”
― Franz Wright, God's Silence

“But if they were condmened to suffer this unending torment, sooner or later wouldn't they become the holy?”
― Franz Wright, God's Silence

“Walking home, for a moment you almost believe you could start again. And an intense love rushes to your heart, and hope. It's unendurable, unendurable.”
― Franz Wright, God's Silence

“Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--”
― Franz Wright, God's Silence

“Walking home, for a moment
you almost believe you could start again.
And an intense love rushes to your heart,
and hope. It's unendurable, unendurable.”
― Franz Wright, God's Silence

“From the past I suffer, and the imminence of some radiantly obvious thing I need to say, though quite what that might be escapes me at the moment, as it always has, and always will.”
― Franz Wright, God's Silence

“I will place my hand in that flame and feel nothing.”
― Franz Wright, God's Silence