Quotes by Ben Lerner

About Ben Lerner:

Benjamin S. Lerner is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and critic. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, a finalist for the National Book Award, a Howard Foundation Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. In 2011 he won the "Preis der Stadt Münster für internationale Poesie", making him the first American to receive this honor. Lerner is a professor of English at Brooklyn College.
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There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form – exhortations poets don’t have to make, given the economic marginality ...

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Since the world is ending,” Peter quoted from behind us, “why not let the children touch the paintings?

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I don’t want what we’re doing to just end up as notes for a novel.

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I tended to find lines of poetry beautiful only when I encountered them quoted in prose, in the essays my professors had assigned in college, where the line breaks were replaced with slashes, so that what was communicated was less a particular poem t...

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My experience of my body was her experience once removed, which meant my body was dissolved, and that’s all I’d ever really wanted from my body, such as it was.

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Laser technology has fulfilled our people's ancient dream of a blade so fine that the person it cuts remains standing and alive until he moves and cleaves. Until we move, none of us can be sure that we have not already been cut in half, or in many pi...

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Author Bio

  • NameBen Lerner
  • DescriptionPoet
  • BornFebruary 4, 1979
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Poet; Essayist