Today, from the bridge, the East River is sparkling. The money is swirling around the tall buildings like tides or like tithes,… — Katy Lederer Bridges Copy Share Image
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 Good writing Copy Share Image
I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue. — Katy Lederer Cases Copy Share Image
I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries. — Katy Lederer Boundaries Copy Share Image
What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one… — Katy Lederer Ability Copy Share Image
The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole. — Katy Lederer Holes Copy Share Image
It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest. — Katy Lederer Advantage Copy Share Image
I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest… — Katy Lederer Adventure Copy Share Image
There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees. — Katy Lederer Hard Copy Share Image
I remember when I was writing my memoir and I was worried about what other people would think when they read it,… — Katy Lederer Matter Copy Share Image
When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by… — Katy Lederer Finance Copy Share Image
It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat.… — Katy Lederer Bankers Copy Share Image
The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American… — Katy Lederer Ghost Copy Share Image
It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book. — Katy Lederer Book Copy Share Image
We live in a capitalist system; anyone who believes they are above this system or purer than this system, even while shopping… — Katy Lederer Believe Copy Share Image
To think of the myriad ways that we live is to think of the ways that we die: Delinquent in our brains,… — Katy Lederer Accounts Copy Share Image
