Louis Dudek Quotes

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

Hatred is generalized, but love is for the particular.

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

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

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 all__but who is capable of that ?

If there is a heaven it’s no doubt already filled__with horses, chickens, lambs, and other poor creatures. People will simply not get in.

Fame is based on what people say about you, reputation on what they think of you.

Aphorisms give you more for your time and money than any other literary form. Only the poem comes near to it, but then most good poems either start off from an aphorism or arrive at one… Aphorisms and epigrams are the corner-stones of literary art.