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Snow is the only one of us that leaves no tracks.

Snow is the only one of us that leaves no tracks.

Kenneth Patchen
Snow, Track
Kenneth Patchen (2008). “The Walking-away World”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

In the love of a man and a woman is the look of God looking.

Kenneth Patchen
Men, Looks, Sound Of Music
Kenneth Patchen (1968). “The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen”, p.487, New Directions Publishing

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.

Kenneth Patchen
Writing, Thinking, Done
Kenneth Patchen (1961). “The Journal of Albion Moonlight”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

I think people need a little joy and humor as well as commitment in their lives

Kenneth Patchen
Commitment, Thinking, People

That which is not daring is nothing.

Kenneth Patchen
Daring
Kenneth Patchen (1961). “The Journal of Albion Moonlight”, p.218, New Directions Publishing

'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

Kenneth Patchen
Book, Fall, Wine
Kenneth Patchen (1968). “The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen”, p.112, New Directions Publishing

Do I not deal with angels When her lips I touch.

Kenneth Patchen
Angel, Lips, Deals
Kenneth Patchen (1968). “The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen”, p.171, New Directions Publishing

I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.

Kenneth Patchen
Hate, Book, Writing

What is a 'thing'? All is movement, a flowing. How stupid it is to speak of the 'mind'. There is a body; there is a mind: they are mixed up together. Shakespeare with a hole in his sock will not write the sonnet of a Shakespeare with socks intact.

Kenneth Patchen
Stupid, Writing, Mind
Kenneth Patchen (1961). “The Journal of Albion Moonlight”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

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