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“I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation.”
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William Everson
#Hipster Quotes
#Squares Quotes
#Beats Quotes
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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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William Everson
Source : William Everson (1988). “The Excesses of God: Robinson Jeffers as a Religious Figure”, p.5, Stanford University Press
#Christian Quotes
#Hippie Quotes
#Marijuana Quotes
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“I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.”
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William Everson
#Moving Quotes
#Book Quotes
#Poetry Quotes
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“Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.”
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William Everson
Source : William Everson (1988). “The Excesses of God: Robinson Jeffers as a Religious Figure”, p.95, Stanford University Press
#Sanctity Quotes
#Attributes Quotes
#Multiple Quotes
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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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William Everson
Source : William Everson (1980). “Earth Poetry: Selected Essays & Interviews of William Everson, 1950/1977”
#Art Quotes
#Healing Quotes
#Handmaids Quotes
