In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories Quotes

“Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.”
― Delmore Schwartz, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories

“What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?”
― Delmore Schwartz, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories

“Time is the fire in which we burn.”
― Delmore Schwartz, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories

“In this our life there are no beginnings but only departures entitled beginnings, wreathed in the formal emotions thought to be appropriate and often forced. Darkly rises each moment from the life which has been lived and which does not die, for each event lives in the heavy head forever, waiting to renew itself.”
― Delmore Schwartz, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories