Quotes from Kenneth Patchen

In the love of a man and a woman is the look of God looking.

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

I think people need a little joy and humor as well as commitment in their lives

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.

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

I am the magical mouseI don't eat cheeseI eat sunsetsAnd the tops of trees.

Do I not deal with angelsWhen her lips I touch.

Let us have madness openly, O menOf my generation. Let us followThe footsteps of this slaughtered age.

I take the word EuropeOr the word deathAnd tear them into tiny pieces;I scatter them at your feet.

Oh lonesome's a bad placeTo get crowded into.

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?

The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind.

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

All at Once Is What Eternity Is.

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

There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death.

God must have loved the people in power, for he made them so much like their own image of him.

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.

Ah I can see that.... You can see anything once you've been told it's there to see

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.

The animal I wanted Couldn't get into the world I can hear it crying When I sit like this away from life

This is the evening of the two-fisted prayer

Truth is always what they don't say.

Never oppose what seems strange in yourself. That is the only part which is aware.