Gerald Stern Quotes - Page 2

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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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• I've changed over my writing life. If I can generalize, I would say that the more recent poems - believe it or not - are more pointedly political; although, if the earlier poems were more existential, they were still political; though, in their own way, had a complicated presence.

  Gerald Stern

  Believe, Writing, Political

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• I've been active in a minor way compared to professional activists. I was a labor leader. I led two labor strikes. I've manipulated boards. I've led marches. I've done many things.

  Gerald Stern

  Two, Leader, Boards

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• I floundered in my twenties. Though I wore a long scarf. And when I got to be thirty I got a job at Temple University in Philadelphia. I worked there for seven years, and I finally got fired, mostly for political reasons.

  Gerald Stern

  Jobs, Years, Philadelphia

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• I was ruined before I got started. I say ruined, but I could say blessed; I was too far gone to believe in it. And I'm shocked how generation after generation repeats the behavior.

  Gerald Stern

  Blessed, Believe, Generations

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

  Gerald Stern

  Teaching, Worthy, Ifs

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• Some poems are art because of their passion.

  Gerald Stern

  Art, Passion, Art Is

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• It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.

  Gerald Stern

  Degrees, Poet

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