Delmore Schwartz
Delmore Schwartz
Delmore Schwartzwas an American poet and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth8 December 1913
CountryUnited States of America
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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
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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.
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All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.