Maxwell Bodenheim famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.
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Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.
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Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.
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Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal.
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H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.
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Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup.
-- Maxwell Bodenheim
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For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.
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Other times when I hear the wind blow I feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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Reality, the oppressor's tongue.
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I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.
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If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all.
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I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!
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Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
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