Michael McClure
Michael McClure
Michael McClureis an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poetswho read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955 rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums. He soon became a key member of the Beat Generation and is immortalized as "Pat McLear" in Kerouac's Big Sur...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 October 1932
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The secret of what we do with this spread attack is that you have to be able to run the ball. It (also) helps if your quarterback can run a little." ()
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I don't know who mentioned William Blake first, but Allen talked about his visions of Blake and I told him about my dreams of being Blake." ()
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We all had our foot on the line. We all believed in that line and none of us have gone back." ()
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By the time Allen read 'Howl' -- and when Snyder then read 'The Berry Feast,' the first deep-ecology poem -- we felt that a body had been thrown against the barricades," ()
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We are all trying to get the exact style of ouuselves.
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My mind is lovely as a spruce, and I and those that love me make it mine.
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Impressionism means taking inspiration directly from nature, trusting your senses rather than what you think you know.
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We are the hurdles we leap to be ourselves.
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When a man does not admit that he is an animal, he is less than an animal. Not more but less.
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In the age where the eight-cylinder Buick, the grey flannel suit and the tract home represented wholesomeness, ... Semina was the ultimate unwholesome object, and we gloried in it." ()
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Allen and I were wallflowers among the lordly and academic figures," ()