“All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like kn...” — Delmore Schwartz Quote

“All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.”

“Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.”

“The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.”

“Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.”

“I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.”

“I'm Jewish, I can say it. We're storytellers. We were the moneylenders... Therefore we tell great tales to get what we need. I love Jewish men. They make the best husbands.”