Capitalist Quotes by Katy Lederer

Today, from the bridge, the East River is sparkling. The money is swirling around the tall buildings like tides or like tithes, And I…

— Katy Lederer

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

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

— Katy Lederer

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

— Katy Lederer

What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to…

— Katy Lederer

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

— Katy Lederer

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

— Katy Lederer

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

— Katy Lederer

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

— Katy Lederer

I remember when I was writing my memoir and I was worried about what other people would think when they read it, and my…

— Katy Lederer

When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in…

— Katy Lederer

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…

— Katy Lederer