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

~Delmore Schwartz

Topics: Burn Fire Learn School Time Which

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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.

~Delmore Schwartz

Topics: Admired Age Brutal Cruel Father He His Man Much Now Remorse See Sixteen Tortured Us Very Without I See

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

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Topics: Bath Else Means Take You

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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

Topics: Admirable Courage Dangerous Desperate Difficult Form Kind Love Love Is Most Noble

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

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Topics: Again Been Major Need Never Said Say Seen Writing

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

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Topics: Husbands Knives Like Lives Look Poets Rotten Them Wives

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

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Topics: Always Cause Me More Near Pleasure Suffering Than Those Who

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Even paranoids have real enemies.

~Delmore Schwartz

Topics: Enemies Even Real

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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.

~Delmore Schwartz

Topics: Alienated Country Even Exile Fury He Himself His History Jew Once Own Survives

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I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

~Delmore Schwartz

Topics: Am Distraction I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: December 8th, 1913

Died: July 11th, 1966

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