Jack Spicer Quotes

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No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries...

Jack Spicer

The English department of the spirit—that great quagmire that lurks at the bottom of all of us.

Jack Spicer

Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to.

Jack Spicer

A really perfect poem has an infinitely small vocabulary.

Jack Spicer

And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made the trees and the stones dance and so forth, and this is something which is in almost all primitive cultures. I think it has some definite basis to it. I'm not sure what. It's like telekinesis, which I know very well on a pinball machine is perfectly possible.

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At least we both know how shitty the world is. You wearing a beard as a mask to disguise it. I wearing my tired smile. I don't see how you do it. One hundred thousand university students marching with you. Toward A necessity which is not love but is a name.

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Aimlessly
It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry.

Jack Spicer

Jack Spicer

Jack Spicer

Born: January 30, 1925

Died: August 17, 1965 (aged 40)

Bio: Jack Spicer was an American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance. In 2009, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer won the American Book Award for poetry.

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