Knives Quote by Delmore Schwartz Download Open image “All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.” — Delmore Schwartz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Knives Like Look Marriage Poetry Rotten Them
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill. — Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery Copy Share Image
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Wives are good on paper, at least. until they turn into harpies with sharp claws and open check books. Then they're kind of frightening.… — Rob Campbell Copy Share Image
All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often… — William McFee Copy Share Image
“I hate married men ; they never make any sacrifice to the Arts, but are always thinking of their duty to their wives and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
“Married against their will, kept in one room, and to one occupation, how could a dramatist give a full or interesting or truthful account… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Wives are like the flowers on a prickly pear cactus. They’re pretty to look at, but you’re better off not picking one.” — Norm Bass 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 by the… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure. — Delmore Schwartz 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 will you… — Delmore Schwartz 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 Day)” — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed! — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again. — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends. — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface? — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots. — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart-… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If you see someone lying out knives and forks consistently, but then one day those knives and forks become weapons you're not sure if… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
In golf, driving is a game of free-swinging muscle control, while putting is something like performing eye surgery and using a bread knife for… — Tommy Bolt Copy Share Image
I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
This is really good,” Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. “You sound surprised,” I said. He shrugged. “I just didn’t think an… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
Before I could lose my courage, I said, "Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right?" I figured she… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
What is that in his hand?" "A cleaver. As in-" "Butcher's knife." "You got it." "I hope not." "He does not look happy." "Are… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
