John Berryman
John Berryman
John Allyn Berrymanwas an American poet and scholar, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and was considered a key figure in the Confessional school of poetry. His best-known work is The Dream Songs...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 October 1914
CountryUnited States of America
bankers bats pay
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
self talking vanity
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
self vanity blame
Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
pals poet
Them lady poets must not marry, pal.
wall humility important
There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).
boring
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
winning skins chaos
We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.