Top 87 Berryman Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Berryman

#1. I'm also a book nerd so aside from my life and my opinions, you could say my lyrics are inspired in some sense by the writings of Guy Debord, John Berryman, Georges Bataille, T.S. Eliot, Albert Camus, Bukowski, Artaud, Derrick Jensen and bunch of other people.

Dominic Owen Mallary

#2. When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.

James Patterson

#3. Some of my favorite poems are "confessional" poems written in the voices of aliens ("Southbound on the Freeway" by May Swenson" and "Report from the Surface" by Anthony McCann), sheep ("Snow Line" by John Berryman) or a yak ("The Only Yak in Batesville, Virginia" by Oni Buchanan).

Matthea Harvey

#4. Whatever I did, even backed by Sting's cash and moral support, it turned to shit. I had reached the end of the line. I became a statistic. Jim Berryman, actor, comedian, bookie and lounge-lizard, was on the dole!

James Berryman

#5. Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.

Edward Abbey

#6. There's a playwright named S.M. Berryman, Sam Berryman, who wrote these kinds of social comedies. They are actually extremely sharp and still quite provocative.

Terry Teachout

#7. The serious poet should seek to explore the 'sources' of these global nightmares-and to explore them not just in poetry, but in person. Poetry is a terminal activity, taking place out near the end of things.

John Berryman

#8. Them lady poets must not marry, pal ... It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them.

John Berryman

#9. I ask for a decree
dooming my bitter enemies to laughter
advanced against them.

John Berryman

#10. Although I now call him 'Sting' to his face, I can still distinguish 'Sting' from 'Gordon Sumner'.

James Berryman

#11. Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

John Berryman

#12. I don't concentrate on technical things like where a microphone is placed and things like that. As a producer, I try to keep the initial feeling from when I first heard a song and make sure we do what were initially aiming for.

Guy Berryman

#13. Something has been said for sobriety but very little.

John Berryman

#14. When Sting arrived on Tyneside in November 1992, to receive his degree, he informed me that it was no longer me who was the skint one.

James Berryman

#15. General Fatigue stalked in, & a Major-General,
Captain Fatigue, and at the base of all
pale Corporal Fatigue,
and curious microbes came, came viruses:
and the Court conferred on Henry, and conferred on Henry
the rare Order of Weak.

John Berryman

#16. I cry. Evil dissolves, and love, like foam;
that love. Prattle of children powers me home,
my heart claps like the swan's
under a frenzy of who love me and who shine.

John Berryman

#17. 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.

John Berryman

#18. I can offer you only: this world like a knife

John Berryman

#19. Soon part of me will explore the deep and dark
Floor of the harbour . I am everywhere,
I suffer and move, my mind and my heart move
With all that move me, under the water

John Berryman

#20. Just keep it simple. When you over-think what you're wearing, that's when wardrobe malfunctions tend to happen.

Guy Berryman

#21. They say we have weak wills. Do you know about the two drunks who went to the film of The Lost Weekend. Came out staggering. "My God I'll never take another drink," said the first. "My God I'll never go to another movie." How's that for commitment?

John Berryman

#22. I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.

John Berryman

#23. One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.

John Berryman

#24. Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

Michael Berryman

#25. Love her he doesn't but the thought he puts
into that young woman
would launch a national product
complete with TV spots & skywriting
outlets in Bonn & Tokyo
I mean it

John Berryman

#26. We must travel in the direction of our fear.

John Berryman

#27. However things hurt, men hurt worse.

John Berryman

#28. The splendour & the lose grew all the same, Sire.

John Berryman

#29. I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and thrown flat, and given cancer, and all kinds of other things short of senile dementia.

John Berryman

#30. As we walked to Fr Walsh's office, Sting asked me what I thought our punishment might be. I had just been beaten for the missing page fiasco, and he told me, straight-faced, that his last thrashing was because his dad was a milkman.

James Berryman

#31. 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 elsewheres
in an area where the soul not talks but sings
& where foes are attacked with axes.

John Berryman

#32. leave wizard Henry: at his lectern where
he's working on his phantasies: Disperse!
and everything goes worse
so the world fills with her knees, harmful & fair:
a medium where 'Fuck you' comes as no curse
but come as a sigh or a prayer.

John Berryman

#33. I still hankered to be back on the racecourse, but getting the funds for yet another assault on the ring was proving difficult. Could I track Sting down?

James Berryman

#34. The only happy people in the world
are those who do not have to write long poems

John Berryman

#35. My psychiatrist can lick your psychiatrist.

John Berryman

#36. Henry rested, possessed of many pills
& gin & whiskey. He put up his feet
& switched on Schubert,
His tranquility lasted five minutes.

Jerome W. Berryman

#37. Caning was a way of life at the school, and the boy, Sting and myself, even at an early age, had our fair share of thrashings.

James Berryman

#38. I'm in love with a lot of things. Some of those things love me back. And some of them don't
and one of them is Radiohead.

Guy Berryman

#39. You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.

John Berryman

#40. Listen, for poets are feigned to lie, and I
For you a liar am a thousand times ...

John Berryman

#41. So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

John Berryman

#42. Anyone wishing to buy the film rights for a rather large sum can contact my publisher and anyone wishing to put me in the top 100 wealthiest people in the UK, please send cheques or Postal Orders to me care of my publisher.

James Berryman

#43. This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.

John Berryman

#44. The worse anyone feels, the worse treated he is. Fools elect fools.

John Berryman

#45. In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go.

Michael Berryman

#46. Heartmating hesitating unafraid

John Berryman

#47. In the school suggestion box, brought out at times, Sting put in a scrap of notepaper advising the authorities to ban the 'slipper', advising everyone to wrap rags around their feet.

James Berryman

#48. Is stuffed, de world, wif feeding girls.

John Berryman

#49. Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.

John Berryman

#50. Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

John Berryman

#51. Magne Furuholmen is a very dear friend of mine. A-ha are a classic pop band and they've got some brilliant songs. I'd say 'The Living Daylights' was one of my favourite Bond tunes: regardless of it being a Bond song, it stands alone as a great piece of music.

Guy Berryman

#52. There is no such thing as Freedom (though it is the most important condition of human life, after Humility, -which does not exist either). There is only Slavery (walls around one) and absence-of-Slavery (ability to walk in any direction, or to remain still).

John Berryman

#53. Yeats knew nothing about life: it was all symbols
& Wordsworthian egotism: Yeats on Cemetery Ridge
would not have been scared, like you & me,
he would have been, before the bullet that was his,
studying the movements of the birds,
said disappointed & amazed Henry.

John Berryman

#54. And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

Michael Berryman

#55. Hunger was constitutional with him,
women, cigarettes, liquor, need need need
until he went to pieces.
The pieces sat up & wrote. They did not heed
their piecedom but kept very quietly on
among the chaos.

John Berryman

#56. I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

John Berryman

#57. Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

Michael Berryman

#58. Springwater grow so thick it gonna clot and the pleasing ladies cease. I figure, yup, you is bad powers.

John Berryman

#59. And there is another thing he has in mind
like a grave Sienese face a thousand years
would fail to blur the still profiled reproach of. Ghastly,
with open eyes, he attends, blind.
All the bells say: too late. This is not for tears;
thinking.

John Berryman

#60. That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast.

Michael Berryman

#61. We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.

John Berryman

#62. It is gorgeously shot, and Andrew believes that the old school way of making films in the best way. Meaning: you have a story, and you stick to the story. You don't change and alter the story because of people who've invested in it and what to put product in a shot.

Michael Berryman

#63. He had tried everything, cutting down (many devices), pipes, cigars, even cold turkey. He had quit once in Rome, for seven hours after breakfast, during the last two of which his (first) wife was begging him to take it up again.

John Berryman

#64. The splendour & the lose grew all the same, Sire.

John Berryman

#65. We have very similar brains. But they come out in different personalities.

Guy Berryman

#66. I only shoot on film. I like the quality, the grain and the imperfections. It offers me something much more rewarding than any digital camera can give me. I believe the extra expense is worth it.

Guy Berryman

#67. Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
we ourselves flash and yearn

John Berryman

#68. The high ones die, die. They die. You look up and who's there?

John Berryman

#69. I conclude now I have no
inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
Peoples bore me,
literature bores me, especially great literature,

John Berryman

#70. That baby has got to learn things
including remaining erect & on deck & all,
her study of herself must include no wings.
She's sturdy, beautiful, & she will do, unless
the universal homage turns her head
as it might well do mine,
hypnotized by the Little Baby ...

John Berryman

#71. A mind so dark it made one wonder if the Renaissance had ever really taken place.

John Berryman

#72. Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.

John Berryman

#73. We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so ... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.

Michael Berryman

#74. He knows: he went over everyone, & nobody's missing. Often he reckons, in the dawn, them up. Nobody is ever missing.

John Berryman

#75. Ever to confess you're bored
means you have no
Inner Resources.

John Berryman

#76. These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand.
They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

John Berryman

#77. I am the little man who smokes & smokes.
I am the girl who does know better but.
I am the king of the pool.
I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

John Berryman