Jack Spicer Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: January 30, 1925 - August 17, 1965
Birthday: January 30
Death: August 17
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.
source: Jack Spicer (2010). “My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer”, p.196, Wesleyan University Press
