Quotes by John Berryman

• 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.
• I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.
• Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
• We must travel in the direction of our fear.