Katy Lederer Quotes

• It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

  Katy Lederer

  Book, Writing, Sentences

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Poetry is God's work.

  Katy Lederer

  Poetry Is

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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

  Book, Writing, Successful

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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

  Cute, Believe, Vacation

  "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Capitalist". Interview with Benjamin Samuel, www.gelfmagazine.com. January 19, 2009.

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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

  Way, Advantage, Should

  "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Capitalist". Interview with Benjamin Samuel, www.gelfmagazine.com. January 19, 2009.

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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

  Heart, Tree, Profit

  Katy Lederer (2008). “The Heaven-sent Leaf: Poems”, Boa Editions

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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

  Thinking, Useless, Ghost

  "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Capitalist". Interview with Benjamin Samuel, www.gelfmagazine.com. January 19, 2009.

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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

  Holes, Howl, Whole

  Katy Lederer (2008). “The Heaven-sent Leaf: Poems”, Boa Editions

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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.

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  Play, Quests, Forests

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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

  People, Bankers, Serious

  "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Capitalist". Interview with Benjamin Samuel, www.gelfmagazine.com. January 19, 2009.

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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

  Thinking, Interesting, Vices

  Interview with Matt Borondy, www.identitytheory.com. February 12, 2005.

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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

  Writing, Good Writing

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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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

  Wise, Mother, Writing

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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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

  New York, Home, Games

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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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?

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  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

  Thinking, Brain, Debt

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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

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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