And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.
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
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
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock. - Delmore Schwartz
Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.
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
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 …
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
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…
Even paranoids have real enemies. - Delmore Schwartz
Even paranoids have real enemies.
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. - Delmore Schwartz
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
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
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…
Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you. - Delmore Schwartz
Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.
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