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John Berryman

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Them lady poets must not marry, pal.


— John Berryman


#poets #dreams

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.


— John Berryman


#dreams

Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.


— John Berryman


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I cry. Evil dissolves, and 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 and who shine.


— John Berryman


#inspirational

Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them.


— John Berryman


#poets #dreams

Is stuffed, de world, wif feeding girls.


— John Berryman


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Springwater grow so thick it gonna clot and the pleasing ladies cease. I figure, yup, you is bad powers.


— John Berryman


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We must travel in the direction of our fear.


— John Berryman


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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.


— John Berryman


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I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.


— John Berryman


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Although portions of Berryman’s late work are sloppy and erratic these poems help clarify the spiritual struggle that motivates and sustains his best writing. '"Edward Hirsch observed that "the 57 stanzas of Homage to Mistress Bradstreet combine the concentration of an extended lyric with the erudition and amplitude of a historical novel. Philip Levine stated in a recorded interview from 2009 that Berryman took his class extremely seriously and that "he was entrancing.

He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and was considered a key figure in the Confessional school of poetry. John Allyn Berryman (October 25 1914 – January 7 1972) was an American poet and scholar born in McAlester Oklahoma.

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