Top 16 Quotes by Delmore Schwartz

About Delmore Schwartz

These are some quotes by American author Delmore Schwartz Poet, who lived between December 8, 1913 and July 11, 1966.

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

Delmore Schwartz

Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.

Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.

Delmore Schwartz

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

Delmore Schwartz

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 has heard two languages through childhood, the one spoken with ease at home, and the other spoken with ease in the streets and at school, but spoken poorly at home.

Delmore Schwartz

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

Delmore Schwartz

In dreams begin responsibilities.

In dreams begin responsibilities.

Delmore Schwartz

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

Delmore Schwartz

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Delmore Schwartz

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Delmore Schwartz

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

Delmore Schwartz

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