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It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those whose lives listen to god. It is not adviseable to cheat that which has no other stake than the deeps and brights of all man.
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Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.
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Your lips have splashed my dull house with print of flowers
My hands are crooked where they spilled over your dear
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
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Kenneth Patchen
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Born:
December 13, 1911
Died:
January 8, 1972
(aged 60)
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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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