Ease Quotes by Delmore Schwartz

Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.

— Delmore Schwartz

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the…

— Delmore Schwartz

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

— Delmore Schwartz

Love is the tact of every good, The only warmth, the only peace.

— Delmore Schwartz

“O your life, your lonely life What have you ever done with it, And done with the great gift of consciousness? What will you…

— Delmore Schwartz

“Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn. (Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day)”

— Delmore Schwartz

I am a book I neither wrote nor read.

— Delmore Schwartz

Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!

— Delmore Schwartz

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

— Delmore Schwartz

What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

— Delmore Schwartz

Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?

— Delmore Schwartz

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

— Delmore Schwartz