Louis Dudek Quotes

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

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#2. A good reputation is better than fame.

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

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

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#5. Hatred isgeneralized, but love is for the particular.

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#6. What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

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#7. The best live among us in disguise.

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

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#9. Art is anything people do with distinction.

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#10. The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry.

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

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

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#13. All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allbut who is capable of that?

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

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

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

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