Collected Poems
Kenneth Patchen
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The animal I wanted Couldn't get into the world I can hear it crying When I sit like this away from life”
“Truth is always what they don't say.”
“This is the evening of the two-fisted prayer”
“Man is not to direct or to be directed anymore than a tree or a cloud or a stone Man is not to rule or be ruled anymore than a faith or a truth or a love Man is not to doubt or to be doubted anymore than a wave or a seed or a fire There is no problem in living which life hasn't answered to its own need And we cannot direct, rule, or doubt what is beyond our highest ability to understand we can only be humble before it we can only worship ourselves because we are a part of it The eye in the leaf is watching out of our fingers The ear in the stone is listening through our voices The thought of the wave is thinking in our dreams The faith of the seed is building with our deaths”
“Why should anyone be surprised at what the men "in power" are capable of --didn't every mad-Judas one of them begin his career by slowly & brutally strangling an innocent child?”
“Law & order embrace on hate's border.”
“What shall light us to murder & defile if by some chance the Laws of the State happen to get turned off?”
“Modern scientific accomplishments" --a wealth of methods coupled with a poverty of intentions which, having nearly exhausted the hell-potential of the earth, move on now to the first frontier of the heavens.”
“Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.”
“Stirred...the fur-toothed graves of young boys...a thousand slain in the time it would take to do love with a pretty girl or think of a new God.”
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imperialism, technology, pantheism, being, order, avarice, humanity, politicians, law, hate, scientific-ethic, corporations, warfare, war, collectivism, greed, truth, synaesthesia, selfishness
