The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on how past humiliations can lead to personal growth and grace through suffering.
Franz Wright's quote emphasizes the paradox of transformation through hardship. It suggests that the painful experiences and humiliations one faces in life are not merely obstacles but essential parts of the process that ultimately contribute to personal growth and grace. By acknowledging that we are 'created by being destroyed', Wright highlights the idea that resilience and strength often arise from our struggles and the manner in which we overcome our past.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life.
EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence discipline and mystery The world is not illusory, we are From crimson thread to toe tag If you are not disturbed there is something seriously wrong with you, I'm sorry And I know who I am I'll be a voice coming from nowhere, inside-- be glad for me.
I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with everyone.
When I'm in certain moods, a conversation will start up in my head, and suddenly I'll realize that the language has reached a very high and interesting level, and then lines and stanzas will just kind of appear, full-blown.
I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it.
His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for example, because the depression era in this country was one of the best for multiracial people, because everybody was poor. Everybody lived in the tents, and under buildings, and under gratings, together.
One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.
I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To them I make my vow: I will be resolute and make an art of government; I will balance my inherited past and become a perfect storehouse of my relic memories. And I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist.
You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
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