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

something has been said for sobriety but very little.

- John Berryman

One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.

- John Berryman

I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.

- John Berryman

Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources.

- John Berryman

Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.

- John Berryman

Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

- John Berryman

I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and o…

- John Berryman