Maxwell Bodenheim quotes

“For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.”
-- Maxwell Bodenheim

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“Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.”
-- Maxwell Bodenheim

Source : Maxwell Bodenheim (1920). “Advice: A Book of Poems”

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“Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.”
-- Maxwell Bodenheim

Source : 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 Bodenheim

Source : 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.”
-- Maxwell Bodenheim

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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.”

“Other times when I hear the wind blow I feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.”

“I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.”

“Reality, the oppressor's tongue.”

“I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.”

“If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.”

“I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!”

“Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.”

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”

“He best can paint them who shall feel them most.”

“Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.”