39 Quotes by Kenneth Patchen

What shall light us to murder & defile if by some chance the Laws of the State happen to get turned off?

It is the nature of man to expose with laws of doubt & impatience, no feeling of wonder that he should a participant in such an incredible undertaking; but rather the shameful certainty that what has been willed without him must in some way resemble the productions of his own sand-castle magnificence.

The angel lay in the little thicket. It had no need of love. There was nothing anywhere in the world could startle it. We can lie here with the angel if we like. It couldn't have hurt much when they slit its throat.

Think enough and you won’t know anything.

Everyman is me. I am his brother. No man is my enemy. I am Everyman and he is in and of me. This is my faith, my strength, my deepest hope, and my only belief.

Now is then’s only tomorrow.

Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night.

Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason.

That which is not daring is nothing.