Kenneth Patchen Quotes
- Do I not deal with angels When her lips I touch.
- It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those whose lives listen…
- Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.
- O take heart, my brothers. Even now... with every leader & every resource & every strategy of every nation on Earth arrayed against Her -…
- Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just…
- The question is not: do we believe in God? but rather: does God believe in us? And the answer is: only an unbeliever could have…
- Everyman is me. I am his brother. No man is my enemy. I am Everyman and he is in and of me. This is my…
- Snow is the only one of us that leaves no tracks.
- You will protect with the last drop of someone else's blood what was never yours.
- What is a 'thing'? All is movement, a flowing. How stupid it is to speak of the 'mind'. There is a body; there is a…
- Think enough and you won't know anything.
- That which is not daring is nothing.
- I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in an attempt to…
- 'THIS ROOM HAS MYSTERY LIKE A TRANCE' This room has mystery like a trance Of wine ; forget-me-nots of you Are chair and couch, the…
- The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more…
- Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason.
- I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am…
- The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind.
- Art is not to throw light but to be light...
- Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest…