Louis Dudek famous quotes

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
-- Louis Dudek

#Forgiveness #Memories #Wells

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.
-- Louis Dudek

#Two #People #Evil

Art is anything people do with distinction.
-- Louis Dudek

#Art #People #Distinction

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.
-- Louis Dudek

#Literature #Tables #Critics

The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.
-- Louis Dudek

#Wonderful #Century #Capacity

Hatred isgeneralized, but love is for the particular.
-- Louis Dudek

#Love Is #Hatred #Particular

Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.
-- Louis Dudek

#Art #Imagination #Should

Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.
-- Louis Dudek

#People #Mind #Rubbish

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?
-- Louis Dudek

#Spring #Race #Cities

The best live among us in disguise.
-- Louis Dudek

#Disguise

There is no original sin. It's all been done before.
-- Louis Dudek

#Done #Sin #Original Sin

A good reputation is better than fame.
-- Louis Dudek

#Reputation #Fame #Good Reputation

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
-- Louis Dudek

#Art #Class #Definitions

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.
-- Louis Dudek

#Forgiveness #Law #Forgiving

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.
-- Louis Dudek

#Writing #Fake #Degrees