Best 13 quotes of Louis Dudek on MyQuotes

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

A good reputation is better than fame.

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?

Art is anything people do with distinction.

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.