Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Louis Dudek

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian poet Louis Dudek.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Louis Dudek, was a Canadian poet, academic, and publisher known for his role in defining Modernism in poetry, and for his literary criticism. He was the author of over two dozen books. In A Digital History of Canadian Poetry, writer Heather Prycz said that "As a critic, teacher and theoretician, Dudek influenced the teaching of Canadian poetry in most [Canadian] schools and universities".

Canadian - Poet | February 6, 1918 - March 23, 2001

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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

The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements.

Louis Dudek

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

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

Louis Dudek

The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry.

Louis Dudek

The best live among us in disguise.

Louis Dudek

Art is anything people do with distinction.

Louis Dudek

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Louis Dudek

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

Louis Dudek

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

Louis Dudek

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

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

Louis Dudek

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

Louis Dudek

Hatred isgeneralized, but love is for the particular.

Louis Dudek

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

Louis Dudek

A good reputation is better than fame.

Louis Dudek

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