Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Ron Loewinsohn

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Ron Loewinsohn.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Ron Loewinsohn

Ronald William Loewinsohn was an American poet and novelist who was associated with the poetry of the San Francisco Renaissance since his inclusion in Donald Allen's 1960 poetry anthology, The New American Poetry 1945–1960. He was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

Bill Knott's poems are . . . rhetorical fluff . . . and fake. — © Ron Loewinsohn
Bill Knott's poems are . . . rhetorical fluff . . . and fake.
It's just this epidemic unimportance, this pervasive feeling that just about everything is "no big deal," that drives these ordinary people to those fast-food joints, there to try to fill with carbohydrates the spiritual and emotional emptiness gnawing inside them.
Most of the people are no thicker than Formica, yet they hunger obscurely for some continuity with the place and with each other.
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