Zukofsky Quotes

#1. When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#2. Olson's Maximus and Zukofsky's 'A' are too symbolically and verbally complex, respectively, to command large audiences especially in an age when a college degree is becoming a certificate of illiteracy.

Guy Davenport

#3. Only emotion objectified endures.

Louis Zukofsky

#4. It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

Louis Zukofsky

#5. If thy meditation tends to fill thy note-book with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and not thy heart with longing after him, and delight in him, for aught I know thy book is as much a Christian as thou (553).

Richard Baxter

#6. Sight is where the eye hits.

Louis Zukofsky

#7. Where can you find purpose? Like success and happiness, our purpose exists in the present, and we constantly strive toward the future to maintain it. What it is for which we strive is up to each of us. The important thing is that we strive toward something.

Philip Zimbardo

#8. I felt a stack of shelves, and these were filled with plastic bottles and maybe buckets, and one object that felt like the worst thing in the world but which turned out later to be a sandwich.

Adam Rex

#9. Nothing is better for being Eternal
Nor so white as the white that dies of a day.

Louis Zukofsky

#10. The more the words of others impressed him with their factual content, the more he felt he must wait for his own facts before being tempted into words.

Louis Zukofsky

#11. This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.

Louis Zukofsky

#12. Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.

Andy Stanley

#13. Religion has had the disastrous effect of placing vitally important concepts, such as morality, happiness and love, in a supernatural realm inaccessible to man's mind and knowledge.

George H. Smith

#14. A
Round of fiddles playing Bach.

Louis Zukofsky

#15. River that must turn full after I stop dying
Song, my song, raise grief to music
Light as my loves' thought, the few sick
So sick of wrangling: thus weeping,
Sounds of light, stay in her keeping
And my son's face - this much for honor.

Louis Zukofsky