--- title: "4 Ron Loewinsohn Quotes - Famous Novelist" description: "American poet and professor (1937–2014)... | Ronald William Loewinsohn was an American poet and novelist who was associated with the poetry of the San F..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-ron-loewinsohn-68081.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Ron Loewinsohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-ron-loewinsohn-68081.jpg) # Ron Loewinsohn (1937–2014) Novelist **4** quotes in **22** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Ron Loewinsohn was a novelist. ## Quick Facts About Ron Loewinsohn Born January 1, 1937 Died October 14, 2014 Profession Novelist ## About Ron Loewinsohn American poet and professor (1937–2014)... \| Ronald William Loewinsohn was an American poet and novelist who was associated with the poetry of the San Francisco Renaissance since his inclusion in Donald Allen's 1960 poetry anthology, The New American Poetry 1945–1960. He was professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Berke ## Quotes by Ron Loewinsohn > [“The elaborateness of the cover story made him feel like a criminal. This is what criminals must feel like as they prepare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-loewinsohn/the-elaborateness-of-the-cover-story-made-him-feel-like-a-criminal/) [Ron Loewinsohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-loewinsohn/) [Like Criminal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/like-criminal-235616/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbe/ron-loewinsohn-68081_quote_the-elaborateness-of-the-cover-story-mad_380442.jpg) > [It's just this epidemic unimportance, this pervasive feeling that just about everything is "no big deal," that drives these ordinary people to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-loewinsohn/it-s-just-this-epidemic-unimportance-this-pervasive-feeling-that-just/) [Ron Loewinsohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-loewinsohn/) [Big deal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/big-deal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc5/ron-loewinsohn-68081_big-deal_it-s-just-this-epidemic-unimportance-thi_414432.jpg) > [Bill Knott's poems are . . . rhetorical fluff . . . and fake.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-loewinsohn/bill-knott-s-poems-are-rhetorical-fluff-and-fake/) [Ron Loewinsohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-loewinsohn/) [Bills](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bills/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb4/ron-loewinsohn-68081_bills_bill-knott-s-poems-are-rhetorical-fluff_786483.jpg) > [Most of the people are no thicker than Formica, yet they hunger obscurely for some continuity with the place and with each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ron-loewinsohn/most-of-the-people-are-no-thicker-than-formica-yet-they-hunger/) [Ron Loewinsohn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-loewinsohn/) [Continuity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/continuity/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d1/ron-loewinsohn-68081_continuity_most-of-the-people-are-no-thicker-than-f_1650616.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ron-loewinsohn/#itemlist", "name": "Ron Loewinsohn Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The elaborateness of the cover story made him feel like a criminal. 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