Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Maxwell Bodenheim.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Maxwell Bodenheim was an American poet and novelist. A literary figure in Chicago, he later went to New York where he became known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians. His writing brought him international notoriety during the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup.
H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.
For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.
Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.
Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal.
Time is but a phantom dagger
That motion lifts to slay itself.