9 Quotes by Louis Zukofsky

It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

The more the words of others impressed him with their factual content, the more he felt he must wait for his own facts before being tempted into words.

This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.

Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.

Only emotion objectified endures.

Sight is where the eye hits.

It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another’s happiness and their own.

I suppose looking back on life, anyone’s life, it amounts to this – everything that diverges from one’s aim is a bloody waste of time, except as respite making you less lonely.

This story was a story of our time. And a writer’s attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.