Delmore Schwartz Quotes - 9quotes.com

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Written by Delmore Schwartz
Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.
Written by Delmore Schwartz
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
Written by Delmore Schwartz
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
Written by Delmore Schwartz
All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.
Written by Delmore Schwartz
I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.
Written by Delmore Schwartz
Even paranoids have real enemies.
Written by Delmore Schwartz
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 the annihilating fury of history.
Written by Delmore Schwartz
I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.
Written by Delmore Schwartz
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 ghost of a little child?
Written by Delmore Schwartz
I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.
Written by Delmore Schwartz

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