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Category Archive: Andrei Codrescu

Andrei Codrescu Quote: “Even the greatest poets can’t express…”

Even the greatest poets can’t express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.

October 27, 2021 1946, American, Andrei Codrescu, December 20, Quotes by Poets

Andrei Codrescu Quote: “Most artists don’t get paid for…”

Most artists don’t get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid’s birthday party.

September 28, 2021 1946, American, Andrei Codrescu, December 20, Quotes by Poets

Andrei Codrescu Quote: “Americans are accustomed to welcoming, or…”

Americans are accustomed to welcoming, or at least receiving, refugees from other countries, not creating our own.

January 18, 2021 1946, American, Andrei Codrescu, December 20, Quotes by Poets

Andrei Codrescu Quote: “Romanians have a particular love for…”

Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu.

July 28, 2020 1946, American, Andrei Codrescu, December 20, Quotes by Poets

Andrei Codrescu Quote: “Real artists free of the tedium…”

Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory.

July 22, 2020 1946, American, Andrei Codrescu, December 20, Quotes by Poets

Andrei Codrescu Quote: “After so many years, I feel…”

After so many years, I feel more American than anything else, but I’m also Romanian and whatever other oddities of temperament I picked up elsewhere, in Transylvania or France, for instance. These days, everybody is both an exile and a resident – they don’t call it the global village for nothing.

June 4, 2020 1946, American, Andrei Codrescu, December 20, Quotes by Poets

Andrei Codrescu Quote: “There is a slight problem with…”

There is a slight problem with being a conceptual artist these days: You won’t get paid. But this levels the field and takes the art of money out of the field of serious art. The only conceptual artists who would conceive of making money on the Internet are a lowbrow species known as hustlers.

November 2, 2019 1946, American, Andrei Codrescu, December 20, Quotes by Poets

Andrei Codrescu Quote: “Romanians are culturally European, very close…”

Romanians are culturally European, very close to the French. Socially, they are now building a society that is emotionally closer to the Balkans, Turkey and Greece.

October 18, 2019 1946, American, Andrei Codrescu, December 20, Quotes by Poets

Andrei Codrescu Quote: “New Orleans reminds me of Romania…”

New Orleans reminds me of Romania because New Orleans is very corrupt politically.

September 5, 2019 1946, American, Andrei Codrescu, December 20, Quotes by Poets

Andrei Codrescu Quote: “My mother and I were part…”

My mother and I were part of a deal in the mid-’60s between Romania and Israel. Israel bought freedom for Romanian Jews for $2,000 a head. Ceausescu made a bundle in hard currency. He also ‘sold’ ethnic Germans to West Germany. Instead of going to Israel, my mother and I came to the United States.

October 18, 2018 1946, American, Andrei Codrescu, December 20, Quotes by Poets
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