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 around us, the footprints of the beast, one nobody has any notion of. The white and vacant eyes of something above there, something that doesn't know we exist. I smell heartbreak up there, Jack, a heartbreak at the center of things, and in which we don't figure at all.
God must have loved the People in Power, for he made them so very like their own image of him. - Kenneth Patchen
God must have loved the People in Power, for he made them so very like their own image of him.
- Kenneth Patchen
Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason. - Kenneth Patchen
Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason.
There are so many little dyings How do we know which one of them is death? - Kenneth Patchen
There are so many little dyings How do we know which one of them is death?
Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night. - Kenneth Patchen
Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night.
Art is not to throw light but to be light. - Kenneth Patchen
Art is not to throw light but to be light.
Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist. - Kenneth Patchen
Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.
Caring is the only daring. - Kenneth Patchen
Caring is the only daring.
Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean, and be it done with humility… - Kenneth Patchen
Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean, and be it done with humility…
In the love of a man and a woman is the look of God looking. - Kenneth Patchen
In the love of a man and a woman is the look of God looking.
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