7 Quotes by William Everson

One of the deepest needs of the human soul is for centeredness . . . which confers meaning on the shapelessness of temporal existence.

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.

I’m beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that’s my vocation.

Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.

Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.

Fascism is an attempt to forge a bond between an historical sacral culture with its roots in the past, and an emergent pluralist mentality not yet thoroughly formalized in a living tradition.

A poem is contained movement.