All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.
Delmore Schwartz

Even paranoids have real enemies.
Delmore Schwartz

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

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
Delmore Schwartz

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz