Quote by Jack Spicer Download Open image “The dead are notoriously hard to satisfy,” — Jack Spicer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
It's so easy to fetishise the dead. We rose-tint or villainise them, and so often in the retelling they are saints or sinners, rather… — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder if necrophiliacs are really into dead people or if they just enjoy the quiet. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from… — Aleksandar Hemon 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
