10+ Jack Spicer Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Jack Spicer quotes and sayings.

No love is Like an ocean with the dizzy procession of the waves' boundaries. — Jack Spicer

At least we both know how shitty the world is. You wearing a beard as a mask to disguise it. I wearing my tired smile. I don't see how you do it. One hundred thousand university students marching with you. Toward A necessity which is not love but is a name. — Jack Spicer

And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made the trees and the stones dance and so forth, and this is something which is in almost all primitive cultures. I think it has some definite basis to it. I'm not sure what. It's like telekinesis, which I know very well on a pinball machine is perfectly possible. — Jack Spicer

A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer. — Jack Spicer

In hell it is difficult to tell people from other people. — Jack Spicer

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. — Jack Spicer

The poet is stepping out of the airplane. — Jack Spicer

See how weak prose is.... Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me and I to them and we will try to destroy each other or attract each other and nothing will happen because we will be speaking in prose. — Jack Spicer

Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to. — Jack Spicer

The dead are notoriously hard to satisfy. — Jack Spicer