Delmore Schwartz Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Delmore Schwartz:

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/delmore-schwartz-quotes/#2ce18c26

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/delmore-schwartz-quotes/#ba88b970

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/delmore-schwartz-quotes/#e8889d99

In dreams begin responsibilities.
~Delmore Schwartz


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/delmore-schwartz-quotes/#5156cb22

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/delmore-schwartz-quotes/#2af60e48

I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.
~Delmore Schwartz


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/delmore-schwartz-quotes/#62e6e968

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 child?
~Delmore Schwartz


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/delmore-schwartz-quotes/#a2d0ae36

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 fury of history.
~Delmore Schwartz


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/delmore-schwartz-quotes/#5be40c0e

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/delmore-schwartz-quotes/#a67762bb

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/delmore-schwartz-quotes/#30940a62

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/delmore-schwartz-quotes/#a3a29871

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/delmore-schwartz-quotes/#38842985

Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.
~Delmore Schwartz


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/delmore-schwartz-quotes/#9dd91db9

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/delmore-schwartz-quotes/#1dee1c99

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.
~Delmore Schwartz


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/delmore-schwartz-quotes/#0cd6f597

Even paranoids have real enemies.
~Delmore Schwartz


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/delmore-schwartz-quotes/#6993a6ef

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