Delmore Schwartz Quotes
Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.
What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?
Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.
The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.
And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.
How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?
I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.
At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death.
I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.
Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!
Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?
