Each minute bursts in the burning room,The great globe reels in the solar fire,Spinning the trivial and unique away.(How all things flash! How all th…

- Delmore Schwartz

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

- Delmore Schwartz

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…

- Delmore Schwartz

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

- Delmore Schwartz

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 …

- Delmore Schwartz

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

- Delmore Schwartz

Even paranoids have real enemies.

- Delmore Schwartz

How the false truths of the years of youth have passed!Have passed at full speed like trains which never stoppedThere where I stood and waited, hardl…

- Delmore Schwartz

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

- Delmore Schwartz