39 Quotes by Kenneth Patchen

The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind.

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

Law and order embrace on hate’s border.

It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those whose lives listen to god. It is not adviseable to cheat that which has no other stake than the deeps and brights of all man.

People don’t want to be healed. They want a nice juicy wound that will show well when they put neon lights around it.

For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.

God must have loved the People in Power, for he made them so very like their own image of him.

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

In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.