William Everson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd done it - the people I'd written about.
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Timeless comes to mind. When you listen to it, you can't tell what year the thing was made. And you don't even care.
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Books wind into the heart.
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Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.
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I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun. There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen ones.
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The unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.
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My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know nothing about the value of the things I am able to write. I know that writing is my vocation. When I sit down to write I feel extraordinarily at ease, and I move in an element which, it seems to me, I know extraordinarily well; I use tools that are familiar to me and they fit snugly in my hands.
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Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.
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Red lips like a living, laughing rose.
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I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation.
