Quotes by John Berryman

John Berryman

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

Drinking

Funny

Song

Ever to confess you’re bored means you have no Inner Resources.

Bored

Mean

Resources

I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

Life

Mouths

Wise

I can offer you only: this world like a knife

Knives

Offers

World

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

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

Heart

Home

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

Want

Writing

Yeats

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.

Achievement

Artist

Ideas

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

Faces

Thinking

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

Boring

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Bed

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Bores

Boring

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Chaos

Children

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Comfort

Dies

Drinking

Faces

Feet

Funny

Great Literature

Heart

Home

Humility

Ideas

Important

Inspirational

Knives

Life

Literature

Littles

Lucky

Lying

Mean

Mother

Motivational

Mouths

Offers

Pals

Poet

Reason

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Rooms

Running

Ruthless

Sea

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Quotes by John Berryman

John Berryman

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

Ever to confess you’re bored means you have no Inner Resources.

I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

I can offer you only: this world like a knife

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

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.

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

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.

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

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