Louis Dudek quotes
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“What is forgiven is usually well remembered.”
-- Louis DudekSource : Louis Dudek (1992). “Paradise: Essays on Myth, Art & Reality”, Vehicule Press
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“There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.”
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“Art is anything people do with distinction.”
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“A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.”
-- Louis DudekSource : Louis Dudek (1992). “Paradise: Essays on Myth, Art & Reality”, Vehicule Press
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“The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.”
-- Louis DudekSource : Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).
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“Hatred isgeneralized, but love is for the particular.”
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“Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.”
-- Louis DudekSource : Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).
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“Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.”
-- Louis DudekSource : Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).
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“All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allbut who is capable of that?”
-- Louis DudekSource : Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).
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“The best live among us in disguise.”
-- Louis DudekSource : Louis Dudek, Aileen Collins (1988). “In defence of art: critical essays & reviews”, Quarry Pr
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“There is no original sin. It's all been done before.”
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“The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.”
-- Louis DudekSource : Louis Dudek (1991). “Small perfect things”, Dc Books
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“Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.”
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“In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake.”
-- Louis Dudek
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