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Kenneth Patchen was an American poet born on December 13, 1911, and died on January 8, 1972. His poetry is known for its unique style and profound emotional expression, which has won him both readers and critics alike.

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All Men Thinking Writing Hate Knows People Action Art Belief Believe Bloody Book Brother Care Carts Danger Daring Done Enough Giving

Famous Kenneth Patchen Quotes

“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Character Stories Action Hate Turns Novel Alive Pages Understood Hundred Skins I Hate Twenties Agree Thirty Shed Snakes I Am Alive

Author:Kenneth Patchen

“Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night.”

Men Writing Soul Night Dog Broken Shots Legs Broken Leg

Author:Kenneth Patchen

“Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just done it.”

Thinking Should Writing Done Literature

Book:The Journal of Albion Moonlight

Source: The Journal of Albion Moonlight

“What is a 'thing'? All is movement, a flowing. How stupid it is to speak of the 'mind'. There is a body; there is a mind: they are mixed up together. Shakespeare with a hole in his sock will not write the sonnet of a Shakespeare with socks intact.”

Writing Mind Body Together Speak Stupid Movement Holes Sonnet Sock

Book:The Journal of Albion Moonlight

Source: The Journal of Albion Moonlight

“I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in an attempt to extend - give an extra dimension to - the medium of words. It happens very often my writing with a pen is interrupted with my writing with a brush - but I think of both as writing.”

Thinking Giving Writing Happens Used Painting Mediums Painter Extras Dimensions Pens Brushes Interrupted

Author:Kenneth Patchen

About the Author

Born: December 13, 1911
Died: January 8, 1972
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 39

Books & Sources

The Journal of Albion MoonlightRelated source material

Collected PoemsRelated source material

The Collected Poems of Kenneth PatchenRelated source material

The Walking-away WorldRelated source material

We MeetRelated source material

Awash with Roses: The Collected Love Poems of Kenneth PatchenRelated source material

Cloth of the TempestRelated source material

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