The Dream Songs
John Berryman
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn”
“These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.”
“Them lady poets must not marry, pal.”
“Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them.”
“ Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.”
“I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature, ”
“Soon part of me will explore the deep and dark Floor of the harbour . . I am everywhere, I suffer and move, my mind and my heart move With all that move me, under the water”
“Listen, for poets are feigned to lie, and I For you a liar am a thousand times . . . .”
“Hunger was constitutional with him, women, cigarettes, liquor, need need need until he went to pieces. The pieces sat up & wrote. They did not heed their piecedom but kept very quietly on among the chaos.”
“The splendour & the lose grew all the same, Sire.”
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Book Keywords:
metonymy, writing, marriage, poetry, poets
