Quotes by Delmore Schwartz - Page 1

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
New Year
Time
Fire
School
Burn
Learn
Which
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Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Courage
Love
Smile
Admirable
Dangerous
Desperate
Difficult
Form
Kind
Love Is
Noble
Love Love Is Difficult
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Even paranoids have real enemies.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Enemy
Luck
Real
Enemies
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In dreams begin responsibilities.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Begin
Responsibilities
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I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Distraction
I Am Am
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I am a book I neither wrote nor read.
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Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Enemies
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Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Foam
Rocks
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Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Baths
Existentialism
Mean
Bath
Take
Else
Means
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Love is the tact of every good, The only warmth, the only peace.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Peace
Love Is
Very Good
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All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Character
Effort
Formal
Literature
Epigram
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What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Age
Funeral
Long
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I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Causes
Pleasure
Suffering
Near
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All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Rotten
Husbands
Poets
Wives
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Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Jam
Party
Waiting
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How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Life
Reality
Thinking
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Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Disorder
Nervous
Order
Profound
Psychological
Roots
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Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Literature
Matter
Teeth
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Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Beneath The Surface
Iceberg
Seven
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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.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Married
Police
Way
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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?
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Morning
Children
Ghost
Inspired
Overpowering
Rose
Held
Human Being
Little Child
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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.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Needs
Said
Writing
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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.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Country
Exile
Fury
Indestructible
Jew
Alienated
Himself
Survives
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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.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Age
Men
Brutal
Father
Remorse
Sixteen
Admired
Age Man Father
But Not Without
Cruel
Tortured
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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.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Cutting
Rivers
Tree
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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.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Morning
Poetry
Toads
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How the false truths of the years of youth have passed!Have passed at full speed like trains which never stoppedThere where I stood and waited, hardly aware,How little I knew, or which of them was the oneTo mount and ride to hope or where true hope arrives.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Littles
Years
Youth
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Whence, if ever, shall come the actualityOf a voice speaking the mind's knowing,The sunlight bright on the green windowshade,And the self articulate, affectionate, and flowing,Ease, warmth, light, the utter showing,When in the white bed all things are made.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Knowing
Voice
White
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Where the light is, and each thing clear,Separate from all others, standing in its place,I drink the time and touch whatever's near,And hope for day when the whole world has that face:For what assures her present every year?In dark accidents the mind's sufficient grace.
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Dark
Light
Years
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To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He has heard two languages through childhood, the one spoken with ease at home, and the other spoken with ease in the streets and at school, but spoken poorly at home.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Childhood
Ease
Eastern Europe
Heard
Immigrants
Special
Streets
Author
Languages
Poorly
Spoken
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Each minute bursts in the burning room,The great globe reels in the solar fire,Spinning the trivial and unique away.(How all things flash! How all things flare!)What am I now that I was then?May memory restore again and againThe smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Memories
School
Unique
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O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's knifeProvides the answer ultimate and appropriate?As I for my part felt in my heart as one who falls,Falls in a parachute, falls endlessly, and feels the vastDraft of the abyss sucking him down and down,An endlessly helplessly falling and appalled clown:This is the way the night passes by, thisIs the overnight endless trip to the famous unfathomable abyss.
Delmore Schwartz / Poet
Fall
Heart
Lonely
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