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Louis Dudek [1918-2001] Canadian
Rank: 105
Poet


Louis Dudek, OC was a Canadian poet, academic, and publisher known for his role in defining Modernism in poetry, and for his literary criticism. He was the author of over two dozen books.

Art, Best, Forgiveness, Intelligence, Poetry, Religion

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The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class. Art, Best
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What is forgiven is usually well remembered. Forgiveness
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Art is anything people do with distinction. Art
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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. Poetry, Religion
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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 distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake. Intelligence
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The best live among us in disguise.
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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.
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The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements.
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