John Berryman, poet

Quotes on Berryman:

“We were brash in our own ways.”

“Phile Levine punched Berryman in the eye one night, breaking a pair of glasses and establishing a life-long friendship.”

Op. posth. no. 3

It’s buried at a distance, on my insistence, buried.

Weather’s severe there, which it will not mind.

I miss it.

O happies before & during & between the times it got

married

I hate the love of leaving it behind,

deteriorating & hopeless that.

The great Uh climbed above me, far above me,

doing the north face, or behind it. Does He love me?

over, & flout.

Goodness is bits of outer God. The house-guest

(slimmed down) with one eye open & one breast

out.

Slimmed-down from by-blow; adoptive-up; was white.

A daughter of a friend. His soul is a sight.

Mr Bones, what’s all about?

Girl have a little: what be wrong with that?

You free?—Down some many did descend

from the abominable & semi-mortal Cat.

Wiki John

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