Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day
Delmore Schwartz (December 8, 1913 – July 11, 1966) was an American poet and short story writer.
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“There’s only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of self-oblivion ... or self-contempt. That’s calmly to turn away from everything, to say, “Enough!” and, folding one’s useless arms across one’s empty breast, to retain the ultimate, the sole attainable virtue, the virtue of recognizing one’s own insignificance.”
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“the walk liberating, I was released from forms,
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into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends
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