Quotes from lederer katy

I thought that you had changed me, but it was just a trick. You sawing back and forth above my chest till I was cut in half, dark magician.

It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.

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.

The cardinal sin in poker, worse than playing bad cards, worse even than figuring your odds correctly, is becoming emotionally involved.

Like a kettle, a lever, a lathe I have used you.

Both writing and poker function as economies of status and prestige, and both require a survivalist's iron will.

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.

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?

The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.

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.

It's so dry when you read it in the papers, but, really, it's mythic.... It's Icarus, it's Faust, it's Eros and vanitas. It's Star Wars!

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?

Only about thirty poker players I can think of make serious money year in and year out playing poker. The rest make a killing one year, lose the next, or lose all the time and lie about it.

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.

I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.

There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.

Poetry is God's work.

I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.