"You should always be trying to write a……" — John Berryman
"You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest."
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John Berryman
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25 Quotes by John Berryman
John Berryman has 25 quotes on this site.
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We must travel in the direction of our fear.
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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At…
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Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves…
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So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise…
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Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed.
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Literature bores me, especially great literature
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Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.
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We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.
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One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.
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Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
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Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
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This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.
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