Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. — Delmore Schwartz Education Copy Share Image
All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram. — Delmore Schwartz Books Copy Share Image
I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure. — Delmore Schwartz Always Copy Share Image
Love is the tact of every good, The only warmth, the only peace. — Delmore Schwartz Love Copy Share Image
What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends. — Delmore Schwartz Age Copy Share Image
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again. — Delmore Schwartz Again Copy Share Image
Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots. — Delmore Schwartz Disorder Copy Share Image
Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface? — Delmore Schwartz Beneath the surface Copy Share Image
Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed! — Delmore Schwartz Books Copy Share Image
At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I… — Delmore Schwartz Cutting Copy Share Image
To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to… — Delmore Schwartz Author Copy Share Image
And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his… — Delmore Schwartz Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel… — Delmore Schwartz Age Copy Share Image
What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired… — Delmore Schwartz Children Copy Share Image
O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever… — Delmore Schwartz Abyss Copy Share Image
“O your life, your lonely life What have you ever done with it, And done with the great gift of consciousness? What… — Delmore Schwartz Life Copy Share Image
“Baudelaire" When I fall asleep, and even during sleep, I hear, quite distinctly, voices speaking Whole phrases, commonplace and trivial, Having no… — Delmore Schwartz Bank account Copy Share Image
Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you. — Delmore Schwartz Bath Copy Share Image
Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx. — Delmore Schwartz Ferry Copy Share Image
All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives. — Delmore Schwartz Husbands Copy Share Image
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. — Delmore Schwartz Admirable Copy Share Image
“Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn. (Calmly We Walk Through This April's… — Delmore Schwartz Fire Copy Share Image
How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love? — Delmore Schwartz Endless Copy Share Image
I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station… — Delmore Schwartz Committed Copy Share Image
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,… — Delmore Schwartz Affectionate Copy Share Image
The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself,… — Delmore Schwartz Country Copy Share Image
How the false truths of the years of youth have passed!Have passed at full speed like trains which never stoppedThere where I… — Delmore Schwartz Hope Copy Share Image
Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has… — Delmore Schwartz Has beens Copy Share Image
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… — Delmore Schwartz Accidents Copy Share Image
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!… — Delmore Schwartz All things Copy Share Image
“The Poet" The riches of the poet are equal to his poetry His power is his left hand It is idle weak… — Delmore Schwartz Brain cells Copy Share Image
