Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface? Delmore Schwartz More Quotes by Delmore Schwartz More Quotes From Delmore Schwartz What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends. Delmore Schwartz funeralagelong Where the light is, and each thing clear,Separate from all others, standing in its place,I drink the time and touch whatever's near,And hope for day when the whole world has that face:For what assures her present every year?In dark accidents the mind's sufficient grace. Delmore Schwartz lightdarkyears All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram. Delmore Schwartz effortliteraturecharacter I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure. Delmore Schwartz pleasurecausessuffering I am of Russian-Jewish distraction. Delmore Schwartz distraction I am a book I neither wrote nor read. Delmore Schwartz book Whence, if ever, shall come the actualityOf 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 voiceknowingwhite Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again. Delmore Schwartz All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives. Delmore Schwartz themlikelookrotten In dreams begin responsibilities. Delmore Schwartz responsibilitiesbegindreams Sometimes even paranoids have enemies. Delmore Schwartz enemiesevensometimes 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 childchildhoodexperiencehome
