Louis Dudek
Louis Dudek
Louis Dudek, OCwas 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. "As a critic, teacher and theoretician, Dudek influenced the teaching of Canadian poetry in most schools and universities" in Canada."...
Louis Dudek quotes about
forgiveness memories wells
What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
two sick people
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.
forgiveness law forgiving
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.
reputation fame good-reputation
A good reputation is better than fame.
writing fake degrees
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.
literature tables critics
A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.
wonderful capacity century
The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.
love-is hatred particular
Hatred isgeneralized, but love is for the particular.
disguise
The best live among us in disguise.
done sin original-sin
There is no original sin. It's all been done before.
spring race cities
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?