Louis Dudek Quotes

The best live among us in disguise.

The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.

There is no original sin. It's all been done before.

A good reputation is better than fame.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements.

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

Hatred isgeneralized, but love is for the particular.

Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.

Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.