Delmore Schwartz

“In dreams begin responsibilities.”

“Each minute bursts in the burning room, Time is the fire in which we burn.”

“I am my father's father,His fathers on his back.”

“A car coughed, starting. Morning softlywhile history is unforgiven.”

“Whence, if ever, shall come the actualityWhen in the white bed all things are made.”

“Where the light is, and each thing clear, In dark accidents the mind's sufficient grace.”

“How the false truths of the years of youth have passed! To mount and ride to hope or where true hope arrives.”

“I no more wrote than read that book which is To prove the reality of endless love?”

“But this, this which we say before we’re sorry,We are Shakespearean, we are strangers.”

“That inescapable animal walks with me,The secret life of belly and bone.”