All poets’ wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives. Delmore Schwartz Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. Delmore Schwartz Read Quote
