Philosophy Quote by Donald Barthelme — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Of course we had hoped that he would take up his sword as part of the President's war on poetry. The time is ripe for that. The root causes of poetry have been studied and studied. And now that we know that pockets of poetry still exist in our great country, especially in the large urban centers, we ought to be able to wash it out totally in one generation, if we put our backs into it.”

“Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world”

“Life's managed, not cured.”

“It’s an already inside outside,”

“I bargained with Life for a penny,”

“One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.”

“Psychedelic experiences are notoriously hard to render in words; to try is necessarily to do violence to what has been seen and felt, which is in some fundamental way pre- or post-linguistic or, as students of mysticism say, ineffable. Emotions arrive in all their newborn nakedness, unprotected from the harsh light of scrutiny and, especially, the pitiless glare of irony. Platitudes that wouldn't seem out of place on a Hallmark card flow with the force of revealed truth.”