Top 15 Katy Lederer Quotes
#1. 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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#2. There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.
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#3. 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.
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#4. 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.
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#6. 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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#7. I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.
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#8. 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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#9. When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in particular, though finance folk also invite me on occasion.
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#10. 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.
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#11. I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).
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#12. The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.
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#13. 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.
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#14. It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.
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#15. I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are
the real boundaries.
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