The Journal of Albion Moonlight Quotes

“The question is not: do we believe in God? but rather: does God believe in us? And the answer is: only an unbeliever could have created our image of God; and only a false God could be satisfied with it.”
― Kenneth Patchen, The Journal of Albion Moonlight

“Ah I can see that....
You can see anything once you've been told it's there to see”
― Kenneth Patchen, The Journal of Albion Moonlight

“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.”
― Kenneth Patchen, The Journal of Albion Moonlight

“You look nice in those old slacks, but in the raw you are Beauty herself.”
― Kenneth Patchen, The Journal of Albion Moonlight

“The question is not: do we believe in God? but rather: does God believe in us? And the answer is: only an unbeliever could have created our image of God: and only a fake God could be satisfied with it.”
― Kenneth Patchen, The Journal of Albion Moonlight

“I have forgotten my mask, and my face was int it.”
― Kenneth Patchen, The Journal of Albion Moonlight

“You will protect with the last drop of someone else's blood what was never yours.”
― Kenneth Patchen, 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.”
― Kenneth Patchen, The Journal of Albion Moonlight

“People don't want to be healed. They want a nice juicy wound that will show well when they put neon lights around it.”
― Kenneth Patchen, The Journal of Albion Moonlight

“I want to buy me a hat with a golden feather & a book with the confessions of God in it”
― Kenneth Patchen, The Journal of Albion Moonlight

“What is the function of man? Surely the sheep can get along without him; horses run better wild; rifles make nothing; of what good are banks when ninety-nine percent of us have no money?—I have said: what are we on earth for? WE SERVE NO PURPOSE IN NATURE. It is my guess that we are slated for extinction.”
― Kenneth Patchen, The Journal of Albion Moonlight

“I have told the story of the great plague-summer; as an artist I could have wished that there had been more structure and design to it – as a man, that there had been less of the kind there was.”
― Kenneth Patchen, The Journal of Albion Moonlight

“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.”
― Kenneth Patchen, The Journal of Albion Moonlight