Louis Dudek Quotes

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.

Louis Dudek

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: February 6, 1918 - March 23, 2001

Topics

IntelligenceWordsSmallFakeWrite

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

John Caudwell

WorkFatherMoneyChildhoodOut

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

John Lothrop Motley

MindNewCivilizationSingle

It's pretty clear that a lot of people in politics see me as a threat, and they should, because I am.

Michael Avenatti

PoliticsI AmPeopleMeSeePretty

I was voted three times Germany's national player of the year, and that is decided by the fans. That shows the fans are there for me and believe in me.

Mesut Ozil

MeBelieveYearThreeFansPlayer

I've always been funny, but I never considered it as a particular career path until my early 30s, when I realized that hip-hop wasn't going to be the long term.

Amanda Seales

FunnyPathLongEarlyCareerNever

You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud.

Solomon Burke

IntegrityYourselfYouClassMud

I don't like boys. They're kind of annoying.

Michelle Wie

KindAnnoyingLike

I like to be in the spotlight once in a while, and then I like to be in the shadows. It's really regenerating.

Monica Bellucci

ShadowsSpotlightLikeOnceReally

I admire people who are creative.

Luise Rainer

CreativePeopleAdmireWho

I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.

Dennis Lehane

FatherStruggleMeWorldSociety

Stand-up is the only thing I have complete control over. There's something to be said for that.

Bobby Lee

ControlSaidOverSomethingComplete

When I began to write, I was surprised at how little London had been used in crime fiction. Places such as Edinburgh or Oxford or L.A. seemed to have stronger identities.

Mark Billingham

StrongerCrimePlacesLondonWrite

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