I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats. John Berryman More Quotes by John Berryman More Quotes From John Berryman I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and thrown flat, and given cancer, and all kinds of other things short of senile dementia. John Berryman cancer faces thinking Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed. John Berryman smart clever funny We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place. John Berryman terrible reason Literature bores me, especially great literature John Berryman great-literature bores literature Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn John Berryman boredom sea sky Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. John Berryman boring something has been said for sobriety but very little. John Berryman sobriety beer littles Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet. John Berryman bed feet way I cry. Evil dissolves, & love, like foam; that love. Prattle of children powers me home, my heart claps like the swan's under a frenzy of who love me & who shine. John Berryman home heart children
