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

- Delmore Schwartz

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“Even paranoids have real enemies.”

- Delmore Schwartz

Source/Notes: The Ego Is Always at the Wheel: Bagatelles (1987 edition), New Directions Publishing - ISBN: 9780811210287

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

- Delmore Schwartz

Source/Notes: The Ego Is Always at the Wheel: Bagatelles (1987 edition), New Directions Publishing - ISBN: 9780811210287

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

- Delmore Schwartz

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

- Delmore Schwartz

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

- Delmore Schwartz

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“I am my father's father, You are your children's guilt. In history's pity and terror The child is Aeneas again; Troy is in the nursery, The rocking horse is on fire. Child labor! The child must carry His fathers on his back.”

- Delmore Schwartz

Source/Notes: The Ballad of the Children of the Czar - Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge (1959)

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“Whence, if ever, shall come the actuality Of a voice speaking the mind's knowing, The sunlight bright on the green windowshade, And the self articulate, affectionate, and flowing, Ease, warmth, light, the utter showing, When in the white bed all things are made.”

- Delmore Schwartz

Source/Notes: Sonnet: O City, City - Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge (1959)

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“That inescapable animal walks with me, Has followed me since the black womb held, Moves where I move, distorting my gesture, A caricature, a swollen shadow, A stupid clown of the spirit's motive, Perplexes and affronts with his own darkness, The secret life of belly and bone.”

- Delmore Schwartz

Source/Notes: The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me - Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge (1959)

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“May memory restore again and again The smallest color of the smallest day: Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.”

- Delmore Schwartz

Source/Notes: For Rhoda l. 40 (1938)

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“What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.”

- Delmore Schwartz

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“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.”

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

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

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