38 Quotes by Delmore Schwartz

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

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.

All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

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.

I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.

I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.

How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?

What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!