Delmore Schwartz Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.”

“Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.”

“Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.”

“To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He has heard two languages through childhood, the one spoken with ease at home, and the other spoken with ease in the streets and at school, but spoken poorly at home.”

“All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.”

“I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.”