Maxwell Bodenheim quotes:

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.

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

Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.

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

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

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