Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by William Everson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet William Everson.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

William "Bill" Everson, also known as Brother Antoninus, was an American poet, literary critic, teacher and small press printer. He was a member of the San Francisco Renaissance.

American - Poet | September 10, 1912 - June 3, 1994

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

William Everson

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

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

William Everson

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

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

William Everson

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by William Everson

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