18 Quotes by David B. Lentz

The poet is a Cyclops in the Kingdom of the Blind whose sole cure for the madness of his vision must be starvation.

New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand.

I look forward to the promising upside of the long-term that lingers ahead for me after such abysmal days. Things always just seem to balance out in the long run. In fact, I’m almost there. The zero line is within inches of my trembling outstretched grasp.

How shall we embrace the common man: give us a reason without a doubt?Is Everyman fated as an island unto himself ‘til his last bright day goes by?

Hacks are killing our national literary culture. America treats best-sellers like literary lions and literary lions worse than stray dogs.

God made women too beautiful and their memories too long.

The HouseflyI’m just a little pesky thing,Flying to eke out a living. So round and round and round I hiss,And fill the air with busy bliss.Of hand and swatter steering clear,I venture to light on crumbs and beer.In salad days I was a Grecian king.War and famine make me sing.How much they’d like to whack me flat,With a newspaper or even a baseball bat.Splat!

God in His infinite wisdom blessed humans with redundant tongues: one to outfit the mouth for speech. And a mother tongue to give it meaning... Though it wags out such inconceivable beauty, attached to the mother tongue lies one much maligned woman.

I want to kill every best-seller list and encourage Americans to discover for themselves inspired new literature that will endure in perpetuity. Let’s pluck from squalid obscurity underground, and publish, the next Hemingways, Fitzgeralds, Morrisons, Bellows, Barths, Vonneguts and Faulkners.