List of Louis Dudek Quotes

Hatred Isgeneralized, But Love Is For The Particular.

The Twentieth Century Had A Wonderful Capacity For Seeing Nothing As The Sum Of Everything.

Canada Is A Country Where The Serious Writers Are Hockey Fans And Readers Of Comic Books. They Don't Play Chess.

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.

There Are Two Kinds Of People; Those Who Are Always Well And Those Who Are Always Sick. Most Of The Evils Of The World Come From The First Sort And Most Of The Achievement From The Second.

Imagination Should Be Integrated With Life, Not Turned Into A Separate Activity, Art, That Monopolizes One's Whole Existence.

In A Poem, The Words Happen; They Just Come. I Let Them. Otherwise, I Wouldn't Write. To Interfere With What Is Happening Is To Distort The Poem. Just A Very Small Degree Of Intelligence And Supervision Is Necessary. Very Tactful. Any Revision Later That Violates The Text As It Came, That Begins Rewriting The Words, Is Fake.

Reason To Rule, Mercy To Forgive: The First Is Law, The Last Prerogative.

Art Is Anything People Do With Distinction.

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?

Intellectually, Most People Never Wash. They Never Free Their Minds Of The Accumulated Rubbish Of Centuries.