Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. - Quotes, Quotations & Sayings by Delmore Schwartz

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

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Delmore Schwartz

Date of birth: 1913-12-08

Date of death: 1966-07-11

Quotes number: 6

Nationality: American

Profession: Poet

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