Philip Whalen quotes

Philip Whalen quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Cherry trees will blossom every year; But I'll disappear for good, One of these days.”
-- Philip Whalen

Source : Philip Whalen, Michael Rothenberg (2007). “The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen”, p.415, Wesleyan University Press

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“My writing is a picture of the mind moving.”
-- Philip Whalen

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“Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.”
“For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain”

Source : Adam Lindsay Gordon, Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1911). “Poems: A.H. Massina”
“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.”
“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”
“Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.”
“A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.”
“I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.”
“He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him...”
“The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?”
“The tree of life for me is a symbol of abundance and eternal life.”

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