Charles Bernstein Quotes

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Not for all the fire in hell
Not for all the blue in the sky
Not for an empire of my own
Not even for peace of mind

Charles Bernstein
The combination of low culture and high technology is one of the most fascinating social features of the video game phenomenon. Computers were invented as super drones to do tasks no human in her or his right mind (much less left brain) would have the patience, or the perseverance, to manage. [...] Now our robot drones, the ones designed to take all the boring jobs, become the instrument for libidinal extravaganzas devoid of any socially productive component. Video games are computers neutered of purpose, liberated from functionality. The idea is intoxicating; like playing with the help on their night off.

Charles Bernstein
As part of the spring ritual of National Poetry Month, poets are symbolically dragged into the public square in order to be humiliated with the claim that their product has not achieved sufficient market penetration and must be revived by the Artificial Resuscitation Foundation (ARF) lest the art form collapse from its own incompetence, irrelevance, and as a result of the general disinterest among the broad masses of the American People. The motto of ARF's National Poetry Month is: "Poetry's not so bad, really."

Charles Bernstein
She
had
then
could
cram
had
by
she
am

Charles Bernstein
Tire
swift swept
front
ly and lie and lane
against

Charles Bernstein
Poetry will never win the war on terror
But neither will error abetted by error We girly men are not afraid
Of uncertainty or reason or interdependence
We think before we fight, then think some more
Proclaim our faith in listening, in art, in compromise So be a girly man
& sing this gurly song
Sissies & proud
That we would never lie our way to war

Charles Bernstein
I hate artifice. All these contraptions so many barriers against what otherwise can't be contested, so much seeming sameness in a jello of squirms. Poetry scares me.

Charles Bernstein