8 Quotes by John Wain

This is Chronos devouring his sons. The last makerof history swallows all previous history down.- The Adventures of the Day-Self in the Age of the Machines

And I, a twister, love, what I abhor.

The most we can ask, the least we can give, is pity.

Great cutting edge,indifferent to tissueGreat stamping mass,indifferent to the cry of crushed bones,Grant us your hardness:We would be as prompt to sufferAs you to inflict our suffering!Light flashes outfrom your whirling bladesHeads bow to the earthbefore your harvesting:Heads of grain, heads of men and women.Grant us your hardness and bright surface.Be with us in the hour of our processing.- Hymn to Steel: for 5 million human voices

I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That’s poetry.

Speak your mind, but ride a very fast horse!!

How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!

There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has happened, and what will happen, and their response is expressed in metaphor, in image and in fable.