Gerald Stern Quotes - Page 2

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• It's a kind of liberation to break free in language, if you can break free, but it's also a confinement, because form confines you - whatever the form.

  Gerald Stern

  Language, Kind, Break

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Attachment has to do with suffering, so it's really close to Buddhism, because Buddhism wants to relieve you from suffering; you're supposed to escape from suffering.

  Gerald Stern

  Buddhism, Attachment, Suffering

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Bruce Smith is a tender master of music, and beautiful lines, and complex thoughts, and fascinating wild personal and cultural references.

  Gerald Stern

  Beautiful, Lines, Masters

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• Tolstoy is one of the greatest artists in history, but he finally became infused with the idea of the uselessness of art. He gave himself to his own kind of religion.

  Gerald Stern

  Art, Ideas, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In America it's a particular problem. The artist, particularly the poet, is just unacknowledged; if I can use that dumb word. Maybe it has always been that way. Maybe the only way he or she can be acknowledged is to be connected with some movement, be it religious or political.

  Gerald Stern

  Religious, Artist, America

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Men aren't called pricks, but women are called cunts.

  Gerald Stern

  Men

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Teaching poetry, teaching as such, is worthy - if back breaking.

  Gerald Stern

  Teaching, Worthy, Ifs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some poems are art because of their passion.

  Gerald Stern

  Art, Passion, Art Is

  Source: therumpus.net

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