Delmore Schwartz Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

“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?”

“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.”

“Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.”

“In dreams begin responsibilities.”

“Even paranoids have real enemies.”

“I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.”

“All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.”