Delmore Schwartz
Delmore Schwartz
Delmore Schwartzwas an American poet and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth8 December 1913
CountryUnited States of America
lonely fall heart
O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's knifeProvides the answer ultimate and appropriate?As I for my part felt in my heart as one who falls,Falls in a parachute, falls endlessly, and feels the vastDraft of the abyss sucking him down and down,An endlessly helplessly falling and appalled clown:This is the way the night passes by, thisIs the overnight endless trip to the famous unfathomable abyss.
seven beneath-the-surface iceberg
Is it not clear that a reviewer's psyche, like an iceberg, is seven-eighths beneath the surface?
rocks foam
Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.
peace love-is very-good
Love is the tact of every good, The only warmth, the only peace.
party waiting jam
Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.
long funeral age
What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.
distraction
I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.
police way married
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.
american-poet husbands lives wives
All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.