"How the false truths of the years of youth have passed!Have passed at full speed like trains which never stoppedThere where I stood and waited, hardly aware,How little I knew, or which of them was the oneTo mount and ride to hope or where true hope arrives."

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Source : Delmore Schwartz (1959). “Summer knowledge; new and selected poems, 1938-1958”

Delmore Schwartz

#Years Quotes #Littles Quotes #Youth Quotes

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“Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.”

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