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Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.

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The historic transition from Novice to Proficient to Adept was said to be accomplished virtually overnight by the progression from marijuana to peyote to lysergic acid. Instant mysticism had arrived. Before the court of law, hippies demanded freedom for LSD the way early Christians demanded freedom for the Eucharist.

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Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.

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William Everson

William Everson

Born: 1912
Died: June 3, 1994 (aged 82)
Bio: William "Bill" Everson, also known as Brother Antoninus, was an American poet of the San Francisco Renaissance and was also a literary critic and small press printer.
Known for:
  1. The residual years (1944)
  2. Birth of a poet (1982)
  3. The crooked lines of God (1959)
  4. Prodigious thrust
  5. The excesses of God (1986)

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