Quotes by Gerald Stern

Gerald Stern

All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has studied most – shall we call her her master – Emily Dickinson. Not in the forms, not, as such, in the music, and not in the references; but in that weird intimacy, that eerie closeness, that absolute confession of soul…. In Barnstone, too, the two worlds are intensely present, and the voice moves back and forth between them. She has the rare art of distance and closeness. It gives her her fine music, her wisdom, her form. She is a fine poet.

Art

Distance

Moving

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.

Attachment

Buddhism

Suffering

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

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Masters

For the Christian mystics, detachment meant to leave attachment so that God could enter you and take over completely and you could climb the ladder to their heaven. Kind of crazy, but what the hell?

Attachment

Christian

Crazy

Humor is not funny. Humor is something else. Funny is a joke, sometimes silly. Comedy is deep and connected to tragedy; comedy could be deeper than tragedy, in my view.

Silly

Tragedy

Views

I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.

Artist

Feels

Jobs

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.

Jobs

Philadelphia

Years

I have left out what I don’t remember or don’t know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.

Kindness

Remember

Shyness

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.

Believe

Blessed

Generations

I will look at the footprints going in and out of the water and dream up a small blue good to talk to.

Dream

Hiking

Journey

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Art Is

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Attachment

Beautiful

Believe

Blessed

Boards

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Break

Buddhism

Buddhist

Caves

Christian

Crazy

Culture

Dark

Degrees

Desire

Distance

Dream

Envy

Feels

Flower

Generations

Giving

Hiking

Home

Hours

Ideas

Ifs

Issues

Jobs

Journey

Justice

Kind

Kindness

Language

Leader

Lines

Littles

Looks

Masters

Mean

Men

Moving

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Quotes by Gerald Stern

Gerald Stern

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.

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

For the Christian mystics, detachment meant to leave attachment so that God could enter you and take over completely and you could climb the ladder to their heaven. Kind of crazy, but what the hell?

Humor is not funny. Humor is something else. Funny is a joke, sometimes silly. Comedy is deep and connected to tragedy; comedy could be deeper than tragedy, in my view.

I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.

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.

I have left out what I don’t remember or don’t know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.

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.

I will look at the footprints going in and out of the water and dream up a small blue good to talk to.

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