Delmore Schwartz Quotes
19 quotes
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Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!
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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…
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Even paranoids have real enemies.
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Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.
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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…
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Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
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I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.
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All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.
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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…
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Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.
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I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.
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What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.
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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
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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.
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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…
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I am a book I neither wrote nor read.
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Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.
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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…
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All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.
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