Delmore Schwartz Quotes

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• Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!
• 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…
• Even paranoids have real enemies.
• Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.
• 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…
• Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
• I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.
• All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.
• I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but…
• Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.
• I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.
• What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.
• Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
• Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
• 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…
• I am a book I neither wrote nor read.
• Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.
• 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…
• All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

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