Delmore Schwartz Quotes

"All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives."
- Delmore Schwartz
(Related: Husbands, Poets, Wives)

"Even paranoids have real enemies."
- Delmore Schwartz
(Related: Enemies)

"Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you."
- Delmore Schwartz

"Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love."
- Delmore Schwartz
(Related: Love, Courage)

"Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again."
- Delmore Schwartz
(Related: Writing)