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O my love my dear lady
The world is not very big
There is only room for our wonder
And the light leaning winds of heaven
Are not more sweet or pure
Than your mouth on my throat
O my love there are larks in our morning
And the finding flame of your hands
And the moss on the bank of the river
And the butterflies
And the whirling-mad
Butterflies!
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'THIS ROOM HAS MYSTERY LIKE A TRANCE' This room has mystery like a trance Of wine ; forget-me-nots of you Are chair and couch, the books your Fingers touched. And now that you Are absent here the silence scrapes A secret rust from everything; While sudden wreaths of sorrow's Dust uncover emptiness like halls To stumble through, and terror falls
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Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night.
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God must have loved the People in Power, for he made them so very like their own image of him.
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In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.
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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.
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I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in an attempt to extend - give an extra dimension to - the medium of words. It happens very often my writing with a pen is interrupted with my writing with a brush - but I think of both as writing.
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Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just done it.
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To leave the earth was my wish, and no will stayed my rising.
Early, before sun had filled the roads with carts
Conveying folk to weddings and to murders;
Before men left their selves of sleep, to wander
In the dark of the world like whipped beasts.
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Oh lonesome's a bad place To get crowded into.
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The animal I wanted
Couldn't get into the world...
I can hear it crying
When I sit like this away from life.
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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.
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Great mother of big apples it is a pretty
World!
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Have you wondered why all the windows in heaven were
broken?
Have you seen the homeless in the grave of God's
hand?
Do you want to acquaint the larks with the fatuous
music of war?
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I am the magical mouse I don't eat cheese I eat sunsets And the tops of trees.
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You, the woman; I, the man; this, the world:
And each is the work of all.
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Let us have madness openly, O men Of my generation. Let us follow The footsteps of this slaughtered age.
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You, the village; I, the stranger; this, the road:
And each is the work of all. Then, not that man do more, or stop pity; but that he be
Wider in living; that all his cities fly a clean flag...
We have been alone too long, love; it is terribly late
For the pierced feet on the water and we must not die now.
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I don't know how the rest of you feel,
But I feel drunk all the time.
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I'd like to die like this...
with the dark fingers of the water
closing and unclosing over these sleepy lights
and a sad bell somewhere murmuring good night.
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Do I not deal with angels
When her lips I touch.
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You, the sought for; I, the seeker; this, the search:
And each is the mission of all. For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes
The built cart out; and where we go is reason.
But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling
Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.
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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.
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As we are so wonderfully done with each other
We can walk into our separate sleep
on floors of music where the milkwhite cloak of childhood
lies
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I take the word Europe
Or the word death
And tear them into tiny pieces;
I scatter them at your feet.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
Kenneth Patchen
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Born:
December 13, 1911
Died:
January 8, 1972
(aged 60)
Bio:
Kenneth Patchen was an American poet and novelist. He experimented with different forms of writing and incorporated painting, drawing, and jazz music into his works, which were often compared with those of William Blake and Walt Whitman.
Known for:
The journal of Albion Moonlight (1941)
Memoirs of a shy pornographer (1945)
Collected Poems (1968)
Sleepers Awake (1946)
In quest of candlelighters (1972)
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