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Top 25 Kenneth Patchen Quotes (2025 Update)

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we’d be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?”

2. “Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we’d be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “Everyman is me. I am his brother. No man is my enemy. I am Everyman and he is in and of me. This is my faith, my strength, my deepest hope, and my only belief.”

3. “Everyman is me. I am his brother. No man is my enemy. I am Everyman and he is in and of me. This is my faith, my strength, my deepest hope, and my only belief.”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “Think enough and you won’t know anything.”

4. “Think enough and you won’t know anything.”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “Do I not deal with angels When her lips I touch.”

5. “Do I not deal with angels When her lips I touch.”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “Now is then’s only tomorrow.”

6. “Now is then’s only tomorrow.”

— Kenneth Patchen

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

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

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason.”

8. “Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason.”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “That which is not daring is nothing.”

9. “That which is not daring is nothing.”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away – leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.”

10. “The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away – leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “All at Once Is What Eternity Is.”

11. “All at Once Is What Eternity Is.”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “Humanity is a good thing. Perhaps we can arrange the murder of a sizable number of people to save it.”

12. “Humanity is a good thing. Perhaps we can arrange the murder of a sizable number of people to save it.”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “Never oppose what seems strange in yourself. That is the only part which is aware.”

13. “Never oppose what seems strange in yourself. That is the only part which is aware.”

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Kenneth Patchen Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind.”

15. “The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind.”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “In the love of a man and a woman is the look of God looking.”

16. “In the love of a man and a woman is the look of God looking.”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “God must have loved the People in Power, for he made them so very like their own image of him.”

17. “God must have loved the People in Power, for he made them so very like their own image of him.”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “You will protect with the last drop of someone else’s blood what was never yours.”

18. “You will protect with the last drop of someone else’s blood what was never yours.”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “Art is not to throw light but to be light...”

19. “Art is not to throw light but to be light...”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “There are so many little dyings How do we know which one of them is death?”

20. “There are so many little dyings How do we know which one of them is death?”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “Law and order embrace on hate’s border.”

21. “Law and order embrace on hate’s border.”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “People don’t want to be healed. They want a nice juicy wound that will show well when they put neon lights around it.”

22. “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

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”

23. “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “Snow is the only one of us that leaves no tracks.”

24. “Snow is the only one of us that leaves no tracks.”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.”

25. “For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those whose lives listen to god. It is not adviseable to cheat that which has no other stake than the deeps and brights of all man.”

26. “It is fully practical to create that which has form in the silence. The noise art makes is usually heard by those whose lives listen to god. It is not adviseable to cheat that which has no other stake than the deeps and brights of all man.”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.”

27. “In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “Any who live, stand alone in one place, together.”

28. “Any who live, stand alone in one place, together.”

— Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen Quote: “I think people need a little joy and humor as well as commitment in their lives.”

29. “I think people need a little joy and humor as well as commitment in their lives.”

— Kenneth Patchen

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