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Delmore Schwartz quotes: Even paranoids have real enemies.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

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

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

Delmore Schwartz quotes: 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 quotes: What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Delmore Schwartz quotes: 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 quotes: Love is the tact of every good,The only warmth, the only peace.

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

Delmore Schwartz quotes: Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

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

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

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

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

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

Delmore Schwartz quotes: Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.

Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.

Delmore Schwartz quotes: I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

Delmore Schwartz quotes: 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 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.

Delmore Schwartz quotes: I am a book I neither wrote nor read.

I am a book I neither wrote nor read.

Delmore Schwartz quotes: All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

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

Delmore Schwartz quotes: 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 quotes: How could I think the brief years were enoughTo prove the reality of endless love?

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