Katy Lederer famous quotes

We live in a capitalist system; anyone who believes they are above this system or purer than this system, even while shopping at the cute organic market across the street or taking a hiking vacation to Guatemala, is certifiable.
-- Katy Lederer

#Cute #Believe #Vacation

To think of the myriad ways that we live is to think of the ways that we die: Delinquent in our brains, in debt-- If we settle, then, our due account and walk through the forest, Will we finally be free?
-- Katy Lederer

#Thinking #Brain #Debt

It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.
-- Katy Lederer

#Way #Advantage #Should

What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.
-- Katy Lederer

#Book #Writing #Successful

There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.
-- Katy Lederer

#Heart #Tree #Profit

The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously into thinking that poets are morally pure and/or useless.
-- Katy Lederer

#Thinking #Useless #Ghost

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.
-- Katy Lederer

#Real #Writing #Thinking

The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.
-- Katy Lederer

#Holes #Howl

I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.
-- Katy Lederer

#Play #Quests #Forests

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.
-- Katy Lederer

#People #Bankers #Serious

Today, from the bridge, the East River is sparkling. The money is swirling around the tall buildings like tides or like tithes, And I wonder, does anyone swim in this river, I wonder, does anyone pray?
-- Katy Lederer

#Bridges #Rivers #Swim

I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.
-- Katy Lederer

#Thinking #Interesting #Vices

Poetry is God's work.
-- Katy Lederer

#Poetry Is