Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Know...
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Source: Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge
Source: Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge
Source: Summer knowledge; new and selected poems, 1938-1958
“Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.”
“Love is the tact of every good, The only warmth, the only peace.”
Source: Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge
“Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?”
Source: Letters of Delmore Schwartz
“Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.”
Source: Last & Lost Poems
“I am a book I neither wrote nor read.”
Source: Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge
“How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?”
Source: Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge
“Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!”
Source: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories
“Even paranoids have real enemies.”
Source: The Ego Is Always at the Wheel: Bagatelles
“Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.”
Source: Vaudeville for a princess, and other poems
“All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.”
“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.”
Source: Letters of Delmore Schwartz
“What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.”
Source: Last & Lost Poems