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Delmore Schwartz
1913 – 1966 • American • Poet
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Collected Meditations
Showing 16 quotesOrder and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.— Delmore Schwartz
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
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
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
To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He has heard two languages through childhood, the one spoken with ease at home, and the other spoken with ease in the streets and at school, but spoken poorly at home.— Delmore Schwartz