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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?

~Delmore Schwartz

Topics: Act Adult Back Being Child Each Freedom Ghost Held Human Human Being Inspired Little Morning Rose Which

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

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Topics: Disorder Form Must Nervous Order Profound Psychological Roots

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

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Topics: Character Effort Epigram Formal Literature

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In dreams begin responsibilities.

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Topics: Begin Dreams Responsibilities

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Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.

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Topics: Enemies Even Sometimes

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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.

~Delmore Schwartz

Topics: Author Child Childhood Ease Eastern Eastern Europe Europe Experience He Heard Home Immigrants Important Itself Kind Languages Other Poorly School Special Spoken Streets Through Two

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: December 8th, 1913

Died: July 11th, 1966

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