Top 25 Quotes by John Berryman of 30 - Page 2

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.

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.

John Berryman

Cancer, Thinking, Faces

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

John Berryman

Boring

77 Dream Songs no. 14, l. 1 (1964)

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

Children, Home, Heart

"The Heart Is Strange: New Selected Poems".