Quotes by Katy Lederer - Page 1

Poetry is God's work.
Katy Lederer / Poet
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It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.
Katy Lederer / Poet
Book
Sentences
Writing
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The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.
Katy Lederer / Poet
Holes
Howl
Whole
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I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.
Katy Lederer / Poet
Real
Thinking
Writing
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There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.
Katy Lederer / Poet
Heart
Profit
Tree
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It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.
Katy Lederer / Poet
Advantage
Should
Way
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I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.
Katy Lederer / Poet
Forests
Play
Quests
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I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.
Katy Lederer / Poet
Interesting
Thinking
Vices
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I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).
Katy Lederer / Poet
Good Writing
Writing
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It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.
Katy Lederer / Poet
Bankers
People
Serious
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When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in particular, though finance folk also invite me on occasion.
Katy Lederer / Poet
New York
Home
Games
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What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.
Katy Lederer / Poet
Book
Successful
Writing
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Today, from the bridge, the East River is sparkling. The money is swirling around the tall buildings like tides or like tithes, And I wonder, does anyone swim in this river, I wonder, does anyone pray?
Katy Lederer / Poet
Bridges
Rivers
Swim
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To think of the myriad ways that we live is to think of the ways that we die: Delinquent in our brains, in debt-- If we settle, then, our due account and walk through the forest, Will we finally be free?
Katy Lederer / Poet
Brain
Debt
Thinking
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The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously into thinking that poets are morally pure and/or useless.
Katy Lederer / Poet
Ghost
Thinking
Useless
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We live in a capitalist system; anyone who believes they are above this system or purer than this system, even while shopping at the cute organic market across the street or taking a hiking vacation to Guatemala, is certifiable.
Katy Lederer / Poet
Cute
Smile
Vacation
Believe
Shopping
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I remember when I was writing my memoir and I was worried about what other people would think when they read it, and my mother, who can be this incredibly wise person, said that it really didn't matter because strangers who read it would never meet me anyway, and people I knew were aware of my secrets.
Katy Lederer / Poet
Wise
Mother
Writing
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