Delmore Schwartz (December 8, 1913 – July 11, 1966) was an American poet and short story writer. Read full biography of Delmore Schwartz →
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.
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... →
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... →
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.
I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.
I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.
In dreams begin responsibilities.
Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.
Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.
Even paranoids have real enemies.
Delmore Schwartz (December 8, 1913 – July 11, 1966) was an American poet and short story writer.