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
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
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
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
Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx. — Delmore Schwartz Ferry 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
All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives. — Delmore Schwartz Knives Copy Share Image
Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you. — Delmore Schwartz Existentialism 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
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
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
