Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) 'Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources.' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother … - John Berryman
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother …
- John Berryman
These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort. - John Berryman
These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.
I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature. - John Berryman
I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.
something has been said for sobriety but very little. - John Berryman
something has been said for sobriety but very little.
One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be. - John Berryman
One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.
Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources. - John Berryman
Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources.
Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie. - John Berryman
Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.
Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers. - John Berryman
Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead y… - John Berryman
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead y…
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