John Berryman
John Berryman
John Allyn Berrymanwas an American poet and scholar, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and was considered a key figure in the Confessional school of poetry. His best-known work is The Dream Songs...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 October 1914
CountryUnited States of America
cancer thinking faces
I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and thrown flat, and given cancer, and all kinds of other things short of senile dementia.
hit limit million time
I've hit my limit at 1.8 million users. This time I'm going to go for 10 million.
anymore becoming care gradually
The world is gradually becoming a place where I do not care to be anymore
reason terrible
We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.
funny offering dragons
Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed.
boring
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
beer sobriety littles
something has been said for sobriety but very little.
knives world offers
I can offer you only: this world like a knife
children heart home
I cry. Evil dissolves, and love, like foam; that love. Prattle of children powers me home, my heart claps like the swan’s under a frenzy of who love me and who shine.
sky sea boredom
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn
literature great-literature bores
Literature bores me, especially great literature
feet bed way
Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.
winning skins chaos
We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.
wall humility important
There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).