Delmore Schwartz Quotes

To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He has heard two languages through childhood, the one spoken with ease at home, and the other spoken with ease in the streets and at school, but spoken poorly at home.

Delmore Schwartz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 8, 1913 - July 11, 1966

Topics

HomeExperienceChildhoodSchool

I make it a habit of never trying to judge what an audience might think, only because all points of view are too close, because we're doing it every day, I think that the actor's point of view is sometimes too close to what the material actually is.

Joe Morton

DayHabitThinkViewJudgeDoing

You want a poem to unsettle something. There's a deep and interesting kind of troubling that poems do, which is to say, 'This is what you think you're certain of, and I'm going to show you how that's not enough. There's something more that might be even more rewarding if you're willing to let go of what you already know.'

Tracy K. Smith

DeepThinkInterestingEnoughYou

I didn't generate my success by being a prognosticator. I developed my reputation building our businesses by building great businesses and making them more efficient.

Michael Lee-Chin

SuccessGreatBuildingReputation

The thing about watching a show about the Iraq war, especially for an American audience, is that it reminds them they're responsible in some way.

Luke Macfarlane

WarAmericanWayWatchingAudience

What is true belongs to me!

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

MeTrueBelongs

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

Diana Ross

MotherChildThoughtSingleEven

Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

Concha Buika

DreamsBrokenVegasPlaceStrange

I'm not really a big candy eater.

Brittany Murphy

CandyBigReallyEater

I need to play well in the majors; that's been my key. That's been something that I've created a pattern in the majors, and I just need to keep improving.

Brooks Koepka

KeyPlayNeedImprovingSomething

Music feels like a six sense to me, and it's never been just a hobby. It's something that I have to do to breathe. It's an extension of who I am.

Shamir

MusicI AmMeHobbyBreatheNever

I'm stunned that people keep asking me to play characters I didn't expect to play.

Mark Williams

PeopleMePlayExpectKeepAsking

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Honore de Balzac

LoveSeaWomanManFaceShe

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