Appearing Quote 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Richard Meltzer