August Kleinzahler Quotes

The New Jersey character - at least this part of Jersey - is straightforward, plainspoken to the point of bluntness, though not at all unfriendly... The humor is deadpan, ironical, playfully depreciating. Affectation is quickly and viscerally registered. - August Kleinzahler

It's not as if he didn't understand that much of his behavior was driven by desperation and self-hate... He wasn't shallow or unreflective, quite the contrary. It was simply the way he was. He was born wild, born troubled. He wasn't designed for the long haul; not everyone is. - August Kleinzahler

I don't like to call myself a poet... Most poets are shiftless, no-account fools. - August Kleinzahler

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