Maxwell Bodenheim quotes
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“For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.”
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“Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.”
-- Maxwell BodenheimSource : Maxwell Bodenheim (1920). “Advice: A Book of Poems”
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“Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.”
-- Maxwell BodenheimSource : Maxwell Bodenheim (2016). “Introducing Irony - A Book Of Poetic Short Stories And Poems”, p.46, Read Books Ltd
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“Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal.”
-- Maxwell BodenheimSource : Maxwell Bodenheim (1920). “Advice: A Book of Poems”
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“H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.”
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“Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup.”
-- Maxwell Bodenheim
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“For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.”
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“I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.”
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Source : Gail Levin, Dewey F. Mosby, Alex Katz, Picker Gallery (1984). “Alex Katz, process and development: small paintings from the collection of Paul J. Schupf '58”
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“Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.”
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