Katy Lederer quotes
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“We live in a capitalist system; anyone who believes they are above this system or purer than this system, even while shopping at the cute organic market across the street or taking a hiking vacation to Guatemala, is certifiable.”
-- Katy LedererSource : "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Capitalist". Interview with Benjamin Samuel, www.gelfmagazine.com. January 19, 2009.
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“To think of the myriad ways that we live is to think of the ways that we die: Delinquent in our brains, in debt-- If we settle, then, our due account and walk through the forest, Will we finally be free?”
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“It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.”
-- Katy LedererSource : "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Capitalist". Interview with Benjamin Samuel, www.gelfmagazine.com. January 19, 2009.
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“What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.”
-- Katy LedererSource : Source: www.identitytheory.com
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“There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.”
-- Katy LedererSource : Katy Lederer (2008). “The Heaven-sent Leaf: Poems”, Boa Editions
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“The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously into thinking that poets are morally pure and/or useless.”
-- Katy LedererSource : "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Capitalist". Interview with Benjamin Samuel, www.gelfmagazine.com. January 19, 2009.
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“I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.”
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“The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.”
-- Katy LedererSource : Katy Lederer (2008). “The Heaven-sent Leaf: Poems”, Boa Editions
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“I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.”
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“It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.”
-- Katy LedererSource : "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Capitalist". Interview with Benjamin Samuel, www.gelfmagazine.com. January 19, 2009.
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“Today, from the bridge, the East River is sparkling. The money is swirling around the tall buildings like tides or like tithes, And I wonder, does anyone swim in this river, I wonder, does anyone pray?”
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“I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.”
-- Katy LedererSource : Interview with Matt Borondy, www.identitytheory.com. February 12, 2005.
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