Jack Spicer

The poet is stepping out of the airplane.

— Jack Spicer

And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall…

— Jack Spicer

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.

— Jack Spicer

“Most of my friends like words too well. They set them under the blinding light of the poem and try to extract…

— Jack Spicer

Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They…

— Jack Spicer

No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries ...

— Jack Spicer

“Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language”

— 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…

— 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…

— Jack Spicer

“ANY FOOL CAN GET INTO AN OCEAN BUT IT TAKES A GODDESS TO GET OUT OF ONE.”

— Jack Spicer

The dead are notoriously hard to satisfy,

— Jack Spicer

A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.

— Jack Spicer

At least we both know how shitty the world is. You wearing a beard as a mask to disguise it. I wearing…

— Jack Spicer

See how weak prose is.... Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me…

— Jack Spicer

“In hell it is difficult to tell people from other people.”

— Jack Spicer

“Beauty is so rare a th— Sing a new song Real Music A busted flush. A pain in the eyebrows. A Visiting…

— Jack Spicer