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Life, friends, is boring. We ...

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.

John Berryman 35 quotes

Praise will lead you to vanit...

Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

John Berryman 35 quotes

something has been said for s...

something has been said for sobriety but very little.

John Berryman 35 quotes

So if I were talking to a you...

So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

John Berryman 35 quotes

I do strongly feel that among...

I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.

John Berryman 35 quotes

These Songs are not meant to ...

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

John Berryman 35 quotes

I conclude now I have no inne...

I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.

John Berryman 35 quotes

Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta...

Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.

John Berryman 35 quotes

You should always be trying t...

You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.

John Berryman 35 quotes

I cry. Evil dissolves, & love...

I cry. Evil dissolves, & 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 & who shine.

John Berryman 35 quotes

There is no such thing as Fre...

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).

John Berryman 35 quotes

Bats have no bankers and they...

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

John Berryman 35 quotes

I didn't want to be like Yeat...

I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.

John Berryman 35 quotes

Life, friends, is boring. We ...

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) 'Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources.' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.

John Berryman 35 quotes

So if I were talking to a youn...

So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

John Berryman 35 quotes

something has been said for so...

something has been said for sobriety but very little.

John Berryman 35 quotes

There is no such thing as Free...

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).

John Berryman 35 quotes

These Songs are not meant to b...

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

John Berryman 35 quotes

I can offer you only: this wor...

I can offer you only: this world like a knife

John Berryman 35 quotes

Bats have no bankers and they ...

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

John Berryman 35 quotes

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