Maxwell Bodenheim Quotes

• For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

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  Wind, Poetry, Paint

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• Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.

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  Ideas, Soldier, Different

  Maxwell Bodenheim (2016). “Introducing Irony - A Book Of Poetic Short Stories And Poems”, p.46, Read Books Ltd

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• H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.

  Maxwell Bodenheim

  Suffering, Disease, Hallucinations

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• Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal.

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  Reality, Dare, Unreal

  Maxwell Bodenheim (1920). “Advice: A Book of Poems”

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• 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.

  Maxwell Bodenheim

  Dine In, House, Greek

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• Time is but a phantom dagger
  That motion lifts to slay itself.

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  Time, Daggers, Phantoms

  Maxwell Bodenheim (1920). “Advice: A Book of Poems”

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