Earth Poetry Quotes

“Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.”
― William Everson, Earth Poetry: Selected Essays and Interviews, 1950-1977

“One of the deepest needs of the human soul is for centeredness . . . which confers meaning on the shapelessness of temporal existence.”
― William Everson, Earth Poetry: Selected Essays and Interviews, 1950-1977

“It is in the order of the imagination, the order of poetry, that the possible exceeds itself, is sanctified in excess.”
― William Everson, Earth Poetry: Selected Essays and Interviews, 1950-1977