Mechanic Quote by Jack Spicer Download Open image “A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.” — Jack Spicer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mechanic Poet Poetry Time
If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time. — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet. — Christian Morgenstern 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
At least we both know how shitty the world is. You wearing a beard as a mask to disguise it. I wearing my tired… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
Buddhism advises you not to implant feelings that you don’t really have or avoid feelings that you do have. If you are miserable you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely,… — J. Willard Gibbs Copy Share Image
You think that it’s not magic that keeps you alive? Just ‘cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn’t make it any… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen… — Gary Coleman Copy Share Image
I told my friend - we were working on a movie together - and he gave me a script and asked me to give… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I worked in a steel mill, I worked in a foundry, I worked in a paper mill, I worked in a chemical refinery, construction,… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Once I came to really understand the mechanics of three-act structure, my life got a great deal easier. It doesn't tell you how to… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
I find it only natural for a storyteller to be interested in storytelling and, for anyone who spends the better part of his or… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
