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title: "1 Curmudgeon Quotes By John Berryman"
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> [This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berryman/this-world-is-gradually-becoming-a-place-where-i-do-not-care-to-be/)

[John Berryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berryman/)

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## More by John Berryman

> [I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berryman/i-didn-t-want-to-be-like-yeats-i-wanted-to-be-yeats/)

[John Berryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berryman/)

> [“Nouns, verbs do not exist for what I feel.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berryman/nouns-verbs-do-not-exist-for-what-i-feel/)

[John Berryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berryman/)

> [Them lady poets must not marry, pal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berryman/them-lady-poets-must-not-marry-pal/)

[John Berryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berryman/)

> [We must travel in the direction of our fear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berryman/we-must-travel-in-the-direction-of-our-fear/)

[John Berryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berryman/)

> [“Huffy Henry hid the day, unappeasable Henry sulked. I see his point,--a trying to put things over. It was the thought that they thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berryman/huffy-henry-hid-the-day-unappeasable-henry-sulked-i-see-his-point-a/)

[John Berryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berryman/)

> [These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berryman/these-songs-are-not-meant-to-be-understood-you-understand-they-are/)

[John Berryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berryman/)

> [something has been said for sobriety but very little.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berryman/something-has-been-said-for-sobriety-but-very-little/)

[John Berryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berryman/)

> [“Springwater grow so thick it gonna clot and the pleasing ladies cease. I figure, yup, you is bad powers.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berryman/springwater-grow-so-thick-it-gonna-clot-and-the-pleasing-ladies-cease/)

[John Berryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berryman/)

> [“The serious poet should seek to explore the 'sources' of these global nightmares-and to explore them not just in poetry, but in person. Poetry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berryman/the-serious-poet-should-seek-to-explore-the-sources-of-these-global/)

[John Berryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berryman/)

> [I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berryman/i-conclude-now-i-have-no-inner-resources-because-i-am-heavy-bored/)

[John Berryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berryman/)

> [“However things hurt, men hurt worse.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berryman/however-things-hurt-men-hurt-worse/)

[John Berryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berryman/)

> [Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berryman/two-daiquiris-withdrew-into-a-corner-of-a-gorgeous-room-and-one-told/)

[John Berryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berryman/)

> [I cry. Evil dissolves, & love, like foam; that love. Prattle of children powers me home, my heart claps like the swan's under a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berryman/i-cry-evil-dissolves-love-like-foam-that-love-prattle-of-children/)

[John Berryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berryman/)

> [“The Prayer of the Middle-Aged Man Amid the doctors in the Temple at twelve, between mother & host at Cana implored too soon, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berryman/the-prayer-of-the-middle-aged-man-amid-the-doctors-in-the-temple-at/)

[John Berryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berryman/)

> [I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-berryman/i-am-so-wise-i-had-my-mouth-sewn-shut/)

[John Berryman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-berryman/)

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