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Delmore Schwartz

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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


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


— Delmore Schwartz


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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


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


— Delmore Schwartz


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


— Delmore Schwartz


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


— Delmore Schwartz


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


— Delmore Schwartz


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According to Schwartz's biographer James Atlas "Delmore continued to hope that he would eventually receive his legacy [even] as late as 1946. "
Schwartz spent time at Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin before finally graduating from New York University in 1935. This story and other short stories and poems became his first book also entitled In Dreams Begin Responsibilities publiDelmore Schwartzd in 1938 when Schwartz was only 25 years old.

Delmore Schwartz (December 8 1913 – July 11 1966) was an American poet and short story writer.

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