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The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.
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Aphorisms and epigrams are the corner-stones of literary art.
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Aphorisms give you more for your time and money than any other literary form. Only the poem comes near to it, but then most good poems either start off from an aphorism or arrive at one.
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A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.
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I wish my deadly foe, no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.
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Louis Dudek
Born:
February 6, 1918
Died:
March 23, 2001
(aged 83)
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Louis Dudek 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.
Known for:
Continuation II (1981)
Literature and the Press (1960)
Infinite worlds (1988)
Zembla's rocks (1986)
The poetry of Louis Dudek (2000)
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