Kenneth Patchen Quotes

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• The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Care, Mankind

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• Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

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  Destiny, Improbable

  Kenneth Patchen (2008). “We Meet”, p.102, New Directions Publishing

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• Art is not to throw light but to be light.

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  Art, Light, Art Is

  Kenneth Patchen (1946). “Sleepers awake”

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• 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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  Children, Thinking, Path

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• 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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  Humility, Greatness, Men

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• I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in an attempt to extend - give an extra dimension to - the medium of words. It happens very often my writing with a pen is interrupted with my writing with a brush - but I think of both as writing.

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  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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• God must have loved the People in Power, for he made them so very like their own image of him.

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  People, Made

  Quoted byAdrian Mitchell inThe Guardian,1 Feb1972.

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• Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night.

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  Dog, Writing, Night

  1941 TheJournal of Albion Moonlight.

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• 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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  Brother, Men, Enemy

  Kenneth Patchen (1991). “Awash with Roses: The Collected Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen”, Small PressDistribution

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• 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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  People, Leaving, Enough

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• You will protect with the last drop of someone else's blood what was never yours.

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  Blood, Lasts, Protect

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• Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason.

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  Giving, Gentle, Treason

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• Caring is the only daring.

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  Caring, Care, Daring

  Kenneth Patchen (2008). “The Walking-away World”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

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• 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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  Believe, Doe, Answers

  Kenneth Patchen (1961). “The Journal of Albion Moonlight”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• There are so many little dyings How do we know which one of them is death?

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  Death, Dying, Littles

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• Think enough and you won't know anything.

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  Thinking, Enough, Knows

  Kenneth Patchen (1961). “The Journal of Albion Moonlight”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

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• Now is then's only tomorrow.

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  Tomorrow

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• Why shouldn't you think it's crazy to believe in a green deer? All your life you have been taught to believe in only what you can use-to set on the table, to put in the bank, to build a house with. What possible use would a green deer be to anyone? Who would believe in a man with a blazing bush in his cart? Then let me tell you that it is beliefs just such as these that are the only hope of the world. Let me tell you that until men are ready to believe in the green deer and the strange carter, we shall not lift our noses above the bloody mess we have made of our living.

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  Crazy, Believe, Men

  "All At Once Is What Eternity Is: Musings On Kenneth Patchen" by Carolyn Zaikowski, therumpus.net. December 2, 2011.

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• It's dark out, Jack, the stations out there don't identify themselves, we're in it raw-blind like burned rats, it's running out all around us, the footprints of the beast, one nobody has any notion of. The white and vacant eyes of something above there, something that doesn't know we exist. I smell heartbreak up there, Jack, a heartbreak at the center of things, and in which we don't figure at all.

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  Running, Eye, Dark

  Kenneth Patchen (2008). “We Meet”, p.167, New Directions Publishing

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• 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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  Life, Art, Men

  Kenneth Patchen (1948). “Cloth of the Tempest”

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• 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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  Brother, Heart, Leader

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• In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.

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  Literature, Knuckles, Conform

  Kenneth Patchen (1961). “The Journal of Albion Moonlight”, p.306, New Directions Publishing

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• All at Once Is What Eternity Is.

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  Eternity

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• 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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  Heart, Greatness, Hunters

  1939 FirstWill andTestament,'The Character of Love Seen as a Search for the Lost'.

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• Law and order embrace on hate's border.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Hate, Law, Order

  Kenneth Patchen (1968). “The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen”, p.486, New Directions Publishing

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