The historic transition from Novice to Proficient to Adept was said to be accomplished virtually overnight by the progression from marijuana to peyote to lysergic acid. Instant mysticism had arrived. Before the court of law, hippies demanded freedom for LSD… — William Everson Copy Share Image
I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation. — William Everson Copy Share Image
“Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.” — William Everson Copy Share Image
“Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.” — William Everson Copy Share Image
The historic transition from Novice to Proficient to Adept was said to be accomplished virtually overnight by the progression from marijuana to peyote to… — William Everson Copy Share Image
I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I… — William Everson Copy Share Image
“One of the deepest needs of the human soul is for centeredness . . . which confers meaning on the shapelessness of temporal existence.” — William Everson Copy Share Image
“Few things contain and impact the immediacy of cultural impress so evocatively as books, and not only through their ideas. A book is an… — William Everson Copy Share Image
