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We have put together a list of some of the best Quotes that Written by John Berryman
John Berryman
Total Quotes 30
Life, Friends, Is Boring. We Must Not Say So. After All, The Sky Flashes, The Great Sea Yearns, We Ourselves Flash And Yearn
Sea
Sky
Boredom
Literature Bores Me, Especially Great Literature
Literature
Great Literature
Bores
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.
Children
Home
Heart
Life, Friends, Is Boring. We Must Not Say So.
Boring
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.
Cancer
Thinking
Faces
Wishin' Was Dyin' But I Gotta Make It All This Way To That Bed On These Feet.
Feet
Bed
Way
Them Lady Poets Must Not Marry, Pal.
Pals
Poet
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).
Wall
Humility
Important
We Have Reason To Be Afraid. This Is A Terrible Place.
Reason
Terrible
I Didn't Want To Be Like Yeats; I Wanted To Be Yeats.
Writing
Want
Yeats
Offering Dragons Quarter Is No Good, They Regrow All Their Parts And Come On Again. They Have To Be Killed.
Funny
Clever
Smart
I Conclude Now I Have No Inner Resources, Because I Am Heavy Bored. Peoples Bore Me, Literature Bores Me, Especially Great Literature.
Bored
Literature
Resources
Something Has Been Said For Sobriety But Very Little.
Beer
Sobriety
Littles
We Are Using Our Own Skins For Wallpaper And We Cannot Win.
Winning
Skins
Chaos
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.
Mother
Mean
Boys
These Songs Are Not Meant To Be Understood, You Understand. They Are Only Meant To Terrify & Comfort.
Song
Comfort
Understood
One Must Be Ruthless With One's Own Writing Or Someone Else Will Be.
Writing
Ruthless
That Is Our ‘pointed Task. Love & Die.
Tasks
Dies
I Am So Wise I Had My Mouth Sewn Shut.
Life
Wise
Mouths
I Can Offer You Only: This World Like A Knife
Knives
World
Offers
Praise Will Lead You To Vanity, And Blame Will Lead You To Self-pity, And Both Are Bad For Writers.
Vanity
Self
Blame
Ever To Confess You're Bored Means You Have No Inner Resources.
Mean
Bored
Resources
This World Is Gradually Becoming A Place Where I Do Not Care To Be Any More.
World
Care
Becoming
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.
Artist
Ideas
Achievement
Born: October 25, 1914
Died: January 7, 1972
Occupation: Poet
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