Quotes by : Ben Lerner

And when you are foolish enough to identify yourself as a poet, your interlocutors will often ask: A....

And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the....

I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed....

I believe she imbued my body thus, finding every touch enhanced by ambiguity of intention, as if it too....

Most of us carry at least a weak sense of a correlation between poetry and human possibility that cannot....

And because his narrator was characterized above all by his anxiety regarding the disconnect between....

Poetry": What kind of art assumes the dislike of its audience and what kind of artist aligns herself....

I had the endless day, months and months of endless days, and yet my return date bounded this sense of....

All I ask the haters--and I, too, am one--is that they strive to perfect their contempt, even consider....

There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich....