Top 6 William Everson Quotes
#1. 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
#2. One of the deepest needs of the human soul is for centeredness ... which confers meaning on the shapelessness of temporal existence.
William Everson
#3. I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation.
William Everson
#4. Few things contain and impact the immediacy of cultural impress so evocatively as books, and not only through their ideas. A book is an artifact, and every age establishes upon the basic functional structure its own particular stamp.
William Everson
#5. Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.
William Everson
#6. Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.
William Everson
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