I no more wrote than read that book which is The self I am,… - Delmore Schwartz

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I no more wrote than read that book which is The self I am, half hidden as it is From one and all who see within a kiss The lounging formless blackness of an abyss. <p> How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?

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Delmore Schwartz (December 8 1913 – July 11 1966) was an American poet and short story writer.

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Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

Its perorations verge upon the ceaseless orations of the ocean:
For reality's glow and glory, without poetry,
Fade, like the red operas of sunset,
The blue rivers and windows of morning.

For reality's glow and glory, without poetry,
Fade, like the red operas of sunset

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