Louis Dudek quotes

What is forgiven is usually well remembered. (Louis Dudek)
Art is anything people do with distinction. View quote
Louis Dudek
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The best live among us in disguise. View quote
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The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class. View quote
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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. View quote
Louis Dudek

Louis Dudek

Occupation: Canadian Poet
Born: February 6, 1918
Died: March 23, 2001
Quotes count: 7