Quotes by John Berryman
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
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.
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources. I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
We must travel in the direction of our fear.
