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 the heart, is an intrusion) the poet loses his or her balance for a moment, slips… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
See how weak prose is.... Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me and I to them and we will try to destroy each other or attract each other and nothing… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
“Most of my friends like words too well. They set them under the blinding light of the poem and try to extract every possible… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries ... — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
“Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language” — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
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… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
“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… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
“ANY FOOL CAN GET INTO AN OCEAN BUT IT TAKES A GODDESS TO GET OUT OF ONE.” — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
