Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.

- Jack Spicer

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 the h…

- Jack Spicer

A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.

- Jack Spicer

Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They ar…

- Jack Spicer

And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made the trees and the …

- Jack Spicer

At least we both know how shitty the world is. You wearing a beard as a mask to disguise it. I wearing my tired smile. I don't see how you do it. One…

- Jack Spicer

No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries.

- Jack Spicer

The dead are notoriously hard to satisfy.

- Jack Spicer

In hell it is difficult to tell people from other people.

- Jack Spicer