Delmore Schwartz

“Let us be intimate. We have not long to wait.”

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

“Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.”

“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 boy?”

“The present is the strangest mystery of all.”

“I am a book I have not yet written.”

“Guilt is the one burden that lends wings to words.”

“This is the naked poetry of time.”

“Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we die.”

“What you are is an advertisement for what you want.”

“The beautiful exists just as the ugly does, and one is no more or less real than the other.”

“All poets are Jews.”

“The world is a wedding.”

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.”

“In dreams begin responsibilities.”