Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic. — David Lehman Copy Share Image
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field.… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room. — David Lehman Copy Share Image
The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
“…When a woman loves a man, they have gone to swim naked in the stream on a glorious July day with the sound of… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
I am completing a book I began back in 2002 called 'Poems in the Manner of.' 'The Matador of Metaphor' is from this manuscript.… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
“When a woman loves a man, they have gone to swim naked in the stream on a glorious July day with the sound of… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul. — David Lehman Copy Share Image
“When she says margarita she means daiquiri. When she says quixotic she means mercurial. And when she says, "I'll never speak to you again,"… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
“How like a winter has been my hard spring away from you, my harp. --Psalm” — David Lehman Copy Share Image
