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Even paranoids have real enemies.

Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?

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

What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

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

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

Call us what you will: we are made such by love.

For reality's glow and glory, without poetry,
Fade, like the red operas of sunset

Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.

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

Love is the tact of every good,
The only warmth, the only peace.

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

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

Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.
(Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day)

Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!

Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.

I am a book I neither wrote nor read.

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

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

How could I think the brief years were enough
To prove the reality of endless love?