The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
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… — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and… — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
