William Everson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation.
-- William Everson

#Hipster #Squares #Beats
The historic transition from Novice to Proficient to Adept was said to be accomplished virtually overnight by the progression from marijuana to peyote to lysergic acid. Instant mysticism had arrived. Before the court of law, hippies demanded freedom for LSD the way early Christians demanded freedom for the Eucharist.
-- William Everson

#Christian #Hippie #Marijuana
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.
-- William Everson

#Moving #Book #Poetry
Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.
-- William Everson

#Sanctity #Attributes #Multiple
Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.
-- William Everson

#Art #Healing #Handmaids

I'm definitely not a muscle builder or a guy that's interested in being a muscle builder. It feels good to get back down to a normal size. Not like a hipster size or a buff-guy size, but just a normal, 34-waist guy.
The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.
it's gonna hurt because it matters.
The visionary is the only realist.
It is easier to square a circle than to get round a mathematician.
We have to try to beat Everyone.
While the heart beats, hope lingers.
The minute anyone makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.
Education beats at the heart of sustainability.
News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.

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