The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living … - Katy Lederer

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I think the place fed me completely. Not only was I in Uganda, but I was around many people who had a personal relationship with Idi Amin. I was eating the food constantly. I was culturally hanging out with the people. You can't help but absorb the energy, and try to get inside the culture.

Katy Lederer

The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously into thinking that poets are morally pure and
or useless.

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We live in a capitalist system; anyone who believes they are above this system or purer than this system, even while shopping at the cute organic market across the street or taking a hiking vacation to Guatemala, is certifiable.

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To think of the myriad ways that we live is to think of the ways that we die: Delinquent in our brains, in debt-- If we settle, then, our due account and walk through the forest, Will we finally be free?

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It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.

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When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in particular, though finance folk also invite me on occasion.

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What separates the professionally successful. . . from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

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