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

- William Everson

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

- 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 when I became a poet.

- William Everson

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

- William Everson

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

- William Everson