See how weak prose is.... Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me and I to them and we will try to destroy each other or attract each other and nothing will happen because we will be speaking in prose.
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
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
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
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…
The dead are notoriously hard to satisfy. - Jack Spicer
The dead are notoriously hard to satisfy.
Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. - Jack Spicer
Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.
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
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 …
A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer. - Jack Spicer
A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.
No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries. - Jack Spicer
No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries.
In hell it is difficult to tell people from other people. - Jack Spicer
In hell it is difficult to tell people from other people.
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
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…
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