Quotes by John Berryman, The Dream Songs
"These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand.They are only meant to terrify & comfort."
"Them lady poets must not marry, pal."
"Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them."
"During those years he met his seminars,went & lectured & read, talked with human beings,paid insurance & taxes;but his mind was not on it. his mind was elsewheresin an area where the soul not talks but sings& where foes are attacked with axes."
"Is stuffed, de world, wif feeding girls."
"I ask for a decreedooming my bitter enemies to laughteradvanced against them."