Kenneth Patchen

In the love of a man and a woman is the look of God looking.

— Kenneth Patchen

“Modern scientific accomplishments" --a wealth of methods coupled with a poverty of intentions which, having nearly exhausted the hell-potential of the earth,…

— Kenneth Patchen

Why shouldn't you think it's crazy to believe in a green deer? All your life you have been taught to believe in…

— Kenneth Patchen

You will protect with the last drop of someone else's blood what was never yours.

— Kenneth Patchen

I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages…

— Kenneth Patchen

“Humanity is a good thing. Perhaps we can arrange the murder of a sizable number of people to save it.”

— Kenneth Patchen

“Law & order embrace on hate's border.”

— Kenneth Patchen

“Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.”

— Kenneth Patchen

There are so many little dyings How do we know which one of them is death?

— Kenneth Patchen

In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.

— Kenneth Patchen

“Truth is always what they don't say.”

— Kenneth Patchen

“Why should anyone be surprised at what the men "in power" are capable of --didn't every mad-Judas one of them begin his…

— Kenneth Patchen

“The rest of the letters were pretty much the same as I got every day now. Two hundred and forty-six proposals, a…

— Kenneth Patchen

“Out of slavery, freedom --yes, & roses from the pig's behind.”

— Kenneth Patchen

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

— Kenneth Patchen

Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in…

— Kenneth Patchen

The question is not: do we believe in God? but rather: does God believe in us? And the answer is: only an…

— Kenneth Patchen

“You look nice in those old slacks, but in the raw you are Beauty herself.”

— Kenneth Patchen

It's dark out, Jack, the stations out there don't identify themselves, we're in it raw-blind like burned rats, it's running out all…

— Kenneth Patchen

“I have forgotten my mask, and my face was int it.”

— Kenneth Patchen

“Man is not to direct or to be directed anymore than a tree or a cloud or a stone Man is not…

— Kenneth Patchen

“I have told the story of the great plague-summer; as an artist I could have wished that there had been more structure…

— Kenneth Patchen

“Ambition is the weakness of all the great spirits who in acceptance will find the joy & the despair the seek. The…

— Kenneth Patchen

Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason.

— Kenneth Patchen

“There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death. ”

— Kenneth Patchen