Top 50 Kenneth Patchen Quotes
#1. I'd carry the mail for you, Ethel,
Stop running around with that pup,
He's got a car, sure, and jack to throw
Like water but what does he want?
What do they all want? something easy,
Something that somebody else worked for.
Ethel, lay off rich kids, you'll end dirty.
Kenneth Patchen
#2. Stirred...the fur-toothed graves of young boys...a thousand slain in the time it would take to do love with a pretty girl or think of a new God.
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#3. The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind.
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#6. The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.
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#8. Everyman is me. I am his brother. No man is my enemy. I am Everyman and he is in and of me. This is my faith, my strength, my deepest hope, and my only belief.
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#9. O take heart, my brothers. Even now ... with every leader & every resource & every strategy of every nation on Earth arrayed against Her - Even now, O even now, my brothers, Life is in no danger of losing the argument! - For after all ... (as will be shown) She has only to change the subject.
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#12. The question is not: do we believe in God? but rather: does God believe in us? And the answer is: only an unbeliever could have created our image of God; and only a false God could be satisfied with it.
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#13. Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night.
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#14. If the truth is inside,
And the form is outside,
What is the truth of sleep?
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#16. People don't want to be healed. They want a nice juicy wound that will show well when they put neon lights around it.
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#17. Modern scientific accomplishments" --a wealth of methods coupled with a poverty of intentions which, having nearly exhausted the hell-potential of the earth, move on now to the first frontier of the heavens.
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#18. In the love of a man and a woman is the look of God looking.
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#19. You will protect with the last drop of someone else's blood what was never yours.
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#20. Ambition is the weakness of all the great spirits who in acceptance will find the joy & the despair the seek. The physician can only cure when he is willing to assume your disease. To be shunned is to be God a little...
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#21. Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?
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#23. 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 ... A man is a sacred thing. ANY ACTION OR THOUGHT WHICH INJURES THE HUMAN IMAGINATION IS EVIL.
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#24. Why should anyone be surprised at what the men "in power" are capable of --didn't every mad-Judas one of them begin his career by slowly & brutally strangling an innocent child?
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#25. You look nice in those old slacks, but in the raw you are Beauty herself.
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#26. Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.
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#27. I want to buy me a hat with a golden feather & a book with the confessions of God in it
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#30. Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just done it.
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#35. God must have loved the People in Power, for he made them so very like their own image of him.
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#36. The angel lay in the little thicket. It had no need of love. There was nothing anywhere in the world could startle it. We can lie here with the angel if we like. It couldn't have hurt much when they slit its throat.
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#37. Ah I can see that....
You can see anything once you've been told it's there to see
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#38. It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those whose lives listen to god. It is not adviseable to cheat that which has no other stake than the deeps and brights of all man.
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#39. Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.
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#40. What shall light us to murder & defile if by some chance the Laws of the State happen to get turned off?
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#41. I think people need a little joy and humor as well as commitment in their lives
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#42. There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death.
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#43. Out of slavery, freedom --yes, & roses from the pig's behind.
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#44. For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.
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#45. The animal I wanted
Couldn't get into the world
I can hear it crying
When I sit like this away from life
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#46. In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.
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#48. There are so many little dyings How do we know which one of them is death?
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#49. What is a 'thing'? All is movement, a flowing. How stupid it is to speak of the 'mind'. There is a body; there is a mind: they are mixed up together. Shakespeare with a hole in his sock will not write the sonnet of a Shakespeare with socks intact.
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