"The artist looks for a subject. You know, a lot of new poets don't seem to have a subject. I don't totally understand that."

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Gerald Stern

#Artist Quotes #Looks Quotes #Poet Quotes

“You smell good, too,â€ said Patch Itâ€™s called a shower.â€ I was staring straight ahead. When he didnâ€™t answer, I turned sideways. â€œSoap. Shampoo. Hot water.â€ Naked. I know the drill.”
“Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs.”
“The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice.”
“I never called a balk in my life. I didn't understand the rule.”
“There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and, new for him, emotion. It's like a dream of levitation: you're instantaneously aloft, soaring, banking, doing loop-the-loops and then, when you think you're about to plummet to earth, swooping to a gentle touchdown of not easily described sweetness and sorrow.”
“Her chin lifted. "Very well. Here is my best offer. Half of my nakedness for all of yours." He pretended to think on it. " It's a bargain.”
“The foundation of our belief is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge it was therefore impossible that they could have persisted in affirming the truths they have narrated, had not Jesus actually rose from the dead, and had they not known this fact as certainly as they knew any other fact.”
“I am going to turn over a new life and am going to be a very good girl and be obedient to Isa Keith, here there is plenty of gooseberries which makes my teeth watter.”

Source : 'Journal' p. 76

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