Zukofsky's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

Italo Calvino

#4. 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

#5. We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our own country.

Dick Morris

#6. I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

Felicia Day

#7. Form delicious bonds. Be the fruit that others seek when their hearts and souls are hungry.

Erica Alex

#8. A
Round of fiddles playing Bach.

Louis Zukofsky

#9. When it comes to fighting for your dreams, be a dragon. Breathe fire.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#10. Nothing apparently, disturbed the mans air of having his mind on something more important than you. You wanted to slap him.

Glen Duncan

#11. Tell him. Please tell him I love him.

Stephenie Meyer

#12. 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

#13. Jewels! Today each twig is important,
each ring, each infection, each form
is all that the gods must have meant.

Anne Sexton

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

Louis Zukofsky

#15. It looked pretty wild, but I was actually in control of myself. I've never really injured anyone throughout my career.

Oliver Kahn

#16. Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.

P. J. O'Rourke

#17. When she moves a chess piece on the board, it isn't so she can win; it's to move the game forward. She's just keeping us all moving forward.

Danielle Stewart

#18. It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Denis Waitley

#19. If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.

Bernard Crick

#20. 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

#21. Sight is where the eye hits.

Louis Zukofsky

#22. 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

#23. Only emotion objectified endures.

Louis Zukofsky