Degrees Quote by Gerald Stern Download Open image “It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.” — Gerald Stern ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Degrees Peace Poet Poetry
There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn’t changed much in the last two or… — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
“A voice from the dark called out, "The poets must give us imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar imagination of disaster. Peace, not only the absence of war." But peace, like a poem, is not there ahead of itself, can't be imagined before it is made, can't be known except in the words of its making, grammar of… — Denise Levertov Copy Share
I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries. — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
“I am going to carry my bed into New York City tonight complete with dangling sheets and ripped blankets; I am going to push… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus. — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally. — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Oppressed cultures often envy those which are not, or oppressed individuals do, and sometimes those which - and who - are not envy those… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
[Photography is ] likewise even French impressionists. So the Sculls bought pop. It was politics, and they moved with it. And I think that… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
I was a full time student either at Stony Brook or NYU getting my masters degree. After I graduated with my masters I was… — Chris Algieri Copy Share Image
Life comes from death. To the degree that I can live in the death of Jesus - to that degree I can channel God's… — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
As hard as I try to live with some degree of faith in my life, I just can't believe that the full moon can… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess. The farthest… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
What are you for? It may be, to a degree, consoling that white brothers and sisters did not vote for [Donald] Trump, and do… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
My mother taught me three things, respect, knowledge-search for knowledge, it's an eternal journey. That's like my hair-cut, the line, 360 degrees, find knowledge… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
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