Katy Lederer Quotes

Poetry is God's work.

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.

I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.

I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are
the real boundaries.

I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.

The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.