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> [No matter what, I'm never going to get an anthology from an actual publisher, though I could always score another music anthology. But if this is going to be a document of a multiplicity of my writings, it'll do. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-meltzer/no-matter-what-i-m-never-going-to-get-an-anthology-from-an-actual/)

[Richard Meltzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-meltzer/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c7/richard-meltzer-31128_anthology_no-matter-what-i-m-never-going-to-get-an_100201.png)

> [If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would have fussed with some of the sentences, you know? Syllabication and prosody and such crap. Because the printed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-meltzer/if-i-looked-at-some-of-these-pieces-as-if-this-project-was-not-spoken/)

[Richard Meltzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-meltzer/)

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## Other authors on Anthology

## More by Richard Meltzer

> [No matter what, I'm never going to get an anthology from an actual publisher, though I could always score another music anthology. But if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-meltzer/no-matter-what-i-m-never-going-to-get-an-anthology-from-an-actual/)

[Richard Meltzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-meltzer/)

> [When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major a long,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-meltzer/when-you-make-it-to-eighty-four-then-you-re-ready-to-sit-back-and/)

[Richard Meltzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-meltzer/)

> [Basically, I've reached the point where I've lost any direct relationship to any of the editors I used to have. I suspect I'll have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-meltzer/basically-i-ve-reached-the-point-where-i-ve-lost-any-direct/)

[Richard Meltzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-meltzer/)

> [I mean, what's thematic? How to put it? Going back to, like, 1980, when I started writing poetry. Language itself became an issue. I'd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-meltzer/i-mean-what-s-thematic-how-to-put-it-going-back-to-like-1980-when-i/)

[Richard Meltzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-meltzer/)

> [But the poetry side is what appeals more to me today. Metaphor, just absurd linkages and coming up with categories, labeling, taxonomy, and I'd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-meltzer/but-the-poetry-side-is-what-appeals-more-to-me-today-metaphor-just/)

[Richard Meltzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-meltzer/)

> [Those which might have some depth are corny enough to be hokey, and almost hokey enough to be folky, since folky is already so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-meltzer/those-which-might-have-some-depth-are-corny-enough-to-be-hokey-and/)

[Richard Meltzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-meltzer/)

> [My issues with it are that simply in terms of my own work. It represents 30 years of output. And some of the things,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-meltzer/my-issues-with-it-are-that-simply-in-terms-of-my-own-work-it/)

[Richard Meltzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-meltzer/)

> [“Culture is a vulture but there's also vulture culture and cultured vultures and cultured yougurt (cherry, peach, pear, pineapple, grape, vanilla, plain, cherry vanilla,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-meltzer/culture-is-a-vulture-but-there-s-also-vulture-culture-and-cultured/)

[Richard Meltzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-meltzer/)

> [If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would have fussed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-meltzer/if-i-looked-at-some-of-these-pieces-as-if-this-project-was-not-spoken/)

[Richard Meltzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-meltzer/)

> [One of the things about me is that I actually had marginally middle-class living from writing. For years and years, I actually wrote so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-meltzer/one-of-the-things-about-me-is-that-i-actually-had-marginally-middle/)

[Richard Meltzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-meltzer/)

> [If I'm very drunk, I can improvise. But generally speaking, no. Generally speaking, almost all of my work is material that was first done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-meltzer/if-i-m-very-drunk-i-can-improvise-but-generally-speaking-no-generally/)

[Richard Meltzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-meltzer/)

> [And the whole online thing is like, I just, that to me is a world that doesn't exist. It's not something you could touch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-meltzer/and-the-whole-online-thing-is-like-i-just-that-to-me-is-a-world-that/)

[Richard Meltzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-meltzer/)

> [Basically, when I hear it now, I don't recognize myself directly in a lot of cases. I was expecting more menace. And the fact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-meltzer/basically-when-i-hear-it-now-i-don-t-recognize-myself-directly-in-a/)

[Richard Meltzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-meltzer/)

> [I didn't mind writing incoherently, up until about 1980, occasionally. But after that, I decided, might as well be articulate. And I found, though,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-meltzer/i-didn-t-mind-writing-incoherently-up-until-about-1980-occasionally/)

[Richard Meltzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-meltzer/)

> [A lot of things appearing under my byline were written in one draft. But when I started to write poetry, I started getting fussy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-meltzer/a-lot-of-things-appearing-under-my-byline-were-written-in-one-draft/)

[Richard Meltzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-meltzer/)

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