Quotes from Lew Welch

You can't fix it. You can't make it go away.I don't know what you're going to do about it,But I know what I'm going to do about it. I'm justgoing to walk away from it.

I am a Beginner. What the others are I don't really know. All I know is I am wiped out every six months or so. I die. I have died hundreds and hundreds of times. It is always the same death. I do not know what dies. Why must I always begin again and again – always the same high hopes, the identical death?

Christ, will I ever find someone who is not crying inside?

We invent ourselves out of ingredients we didn't choose, by a process we can't control.

THE BASIC CON Those who can't find anything to live for, always invent something to die for. Then they want the rest of us to die for it, too.

The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day.

ALRIGHT then, be a Zen monk. But you wait and see. You'll be happy and bright. You'll laugh. People will envy and ridicule you. You won't care. (sigh)

My job is writing poems, reading them out loud, getting them printed, studying, learning how to become the kind of man who has something of worth to say. It's a great job. Naturally I'm starving to death