"I am a book I neither wrote nor read."

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Source : Delmore Schwartz (1967). “Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge”, p.200, New Directions Publishing

Delmore Schwartz

“In the world of existence there is no more powerful magnet than the magnet of love.”
“Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.”
“It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.”
“All human life can be found in an airport.”
“My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.”
“The more you ride the bike, the better it gets, and the more you know how to ride it.”

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“he very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will not pass muster with me.”
“Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?”

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