New york city Quote by Gerald Stern

I've been trying to come to terms with what I am and what I do and what I believe in. And I see that…

— Gerald Stern

“I think it's in Malone Dies that Beckett's creature is in a kind of prison or hospital. As I recall, he is visited twice…

— Gerald Stern

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

— Gerald Stern

I've changed over my writing life. If I can generalize, I would say that the more recent poems - believe it or not -…

— Gerald Stern

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus.

— Gerald Stern

I've spent hundreds of hours working over words, and part of me, a large part of me, has a desire to do something else.

— Gerald Stern

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…

— Gerald Stern

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

— Gerald Stern

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…

— Gerald Stern

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

— Gerald Stern

Oppressed cultures often envy those which are not, or oppressed individuals do, and sometimes those which - and who - are not envy those…

— Gerald Stern

The act of writing itself isn't outrageous. And the institution subtly and insidiously works on you in such a way that though you seem…

— Gerald Stern