--- title: "1 Aimlessly Quotes By Jack Spicer" description: "1 Aimlessly quotes by Jack Spicer. Plus more from Jack Spicer and more Aimlessly sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad9/jack-spicer-32006_aimless_aimlessly-it-pounds-the-shore-white-and_1568552.jpg" --- > [“Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-spicer/aimlessly-it-pounds-the-shore-white-and-aimless-signals-no-one/) [Jack Spicer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-spicer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad9/jack-spicer-32006_aimless_aimlessly-it-pounds-the-shore-white-and_1568552.jpg) ## More by Jack Spicer > [The poet is stepping out of the airplane.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-spicer/the-poet-is-stepping-out-of-the-airplane/) [Jack Spicer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-spicer/) > [And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-spicer/and-i-think-that-it-is-certainly-possible-that-the-objective-universe/) [Jack Spicer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-spicer/) > [Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-spicer/loneliness-is-necessary-for-pure-poetry/) [Jack Spicer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-spicer/) > [“Most of my friends like words too well. They set them under the blinding light of the poem and try to extract every possible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-spicer/most-of-my-friends-like-words-too-well-they-set-them-under-the/) [Jack Spicer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-spicer/) > [Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-spicer/words-are-what-sticks-to-the-real-we-use-them-to-push-the-real-to/) [Jack Spicer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-spicer/) > [No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries ...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-spicer/no-love-is-like-an-ocean-with-the-dizzy-procession-of-the-waves/) [Jack Spicer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-spicer/) > [“Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-spicer/aimlessly-it-pounds-the-shore-white-and-aimless-signals-no-one/) [Jack Spicer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-spicer/) > [Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed or in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-spicer/loneliness-is-necessary-for-pure-poetry-when-someone-intrudes-into/) [Jack Spicer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-spicer/) > [“Well Dennis you don't have to hear any of the mountain music they play here. Telling the young lies so that they can learn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-spicer/well-dennis-you-don-t-have-to-hear-any-of-the-mountain-music-they/) [Jack Spicer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-spicer/) > [“ANY FOOL CAN GET INTO AN OCEAN BUT IT TAKES A GODDESS TO GET OUT OF ONE.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-spicer/any-fool-can-get-into-an-ocean-but-it-takes-a-goddess-to-get-out-of/) [Jack Spicer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-spicer/) > [The dead are notoriously hard to satisfy,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-spicer/the-dead-are-notoriously-hard-to-satisfy/) [Jack Spicer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-spicer/) > [A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-spicer/a-poet-is-a-time-mechanic-not-an-embalmer/) [Jack Spicer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-spicer/) > [At least we both know how shitty the world is. You wearing a beard as a mask to disguise it. I wearing my tired…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-spicer/at-least-we-both-know-how-shitty-the-world-is-you-wearing-a-beard-as/) [Jack Spicer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-spicer/) > [See how weak prose is… Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-spicer/see-how-weak-prose-is-presently-i-shall-go-to-a-bar-and-there-one-or/) [Jack Spicer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-spicer/) > [“In hell it is difficult to tell people from other people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-spicer/in-hell-it-is-difficult-to-tell-people-from-other-people/) [Jack Spicer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-spicer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aimlessly/jack-spicer/#itemlist", "name": "1 Aimlessly Quotes By Jack Spicer", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Aimlessly It pounds the shore. 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