Quotes from Ronald Everett Capps

See what is invisible and you will see what to write

The word 'love' is a fucked up word that's been used and abused so much it no longer means shit. The same thing is true about 'beauty.' 'Beauty' doesn't mean anything anymore. Idots use the word, and look at what they use it for. Nothing! Anything! If you ever become educated, and I doubt if that will ever happen, you will have to understand that most of what you will learn is going to be just a lot of shit.

People who have the ability to hear, I mean with their inner being, souls, wisdom, are the only ones who can grasp the...things that remain out of sight.

like two children who had, for the first time, discovered someone who shared their thoughts...

That was the way he had lived his whole life. To him things were simple. You reached out and took, and if you felt like it, you gave, with the intensity you wanted to give with.

If you are capable of hearing, listen.

I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle-- And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, and not a sin- gle regret.

Let them leave language to their lonely betters Who count some days and long for cer- tain letters; We, too, make noises when we laugh or weep, Words are for those with promises to keep.

We know so many things that remain out of sight

The earth keeps some vibration going there in your heart, and that is you...

Takes one motherfucker to know another.

It's about...something that remains out of sight

Pride Goeth before the fall.

one drink did not a drunk make