Stephanie Burt > Quotes

“I have been a drop in the air. I have been a shining star. I have been a word in a book.… I have been the string of a harp, Enchanted for a year In the foam of water. I have been a poker in the fire. I have been a tree in a covert. There is nothing in which I have not been.”
― Stephanie Burt, Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems

“All works of art involve collaboration; all works of criticism doubly so.”
― Stephanie Burt, Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall

“I was delighted by what for most people would have been an awkward consumer interaction, because a stranger had seen me in a literally unflattering light, and heard my voice, and still saw me as a woman. For binary trans people like me, that’s huge. Our sense of self-worth and well-being can depend on whether the people around us reinforce, or deny, our inner sense of who we are.”
― Stephanie Burt