Authors:

Maxwell Bodenheim Quotes

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Maxwell Bodenheim
Wind, Poetry, Paint

Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.

Maxwell Bodenheim
Ideas, Soldier, Different
Maxwell Bodenheim (2016). “Introducing Irony - A Book Of Poetic Short Stories And Poems”, p.46, Read Books Ltd

H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.

Maxwell Bodenheim
Suffering, Disease, Hallucinations

Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal.

Maxwell Bodenheim
Reality, Dare, Unreal
Maxwell Bodenheim (1920). “Advice: A Book of Poems”

Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup.

Maxwell Bodenheim
Dine In, House, Greek

Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.

Maxwell Bodenheim
Time, Daggers, Phantoms
Maxwell Bodenheim (1920). “Advice: A Book of Poems”

You May Also Like: