William Everson

I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation.

— William Everson

“Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.”

— William Everson

“Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.”

— William Everson

The historic transition from Novice to Proficient to Adept was said to be accomplished virtually overnight by the progression from marijuana to…

— William Everson

I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's…

— William Everson

“A poem is contained movement. ”

— William Everson

“One of the deepest needs of the human soul is for centeredness . . . which confers meaning on the shapelessness of temporal existence.”

— William Everson

“Few things contain and impact the immediacy of cultural impress so evocatively as books, and not only through their ideas. A book…

— William Everson