Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Michael McClure
American Poet, Playwright, Songwriter and Novelist
"The fragmented consciousness is intense. The possessor burns brightly. When men is alone he is on fire. When man is Love he is on fire. When man sleeps he is a constellation. Alert in the forest at night."
"The Imagination makes us transcendent of Time and we see what is gorgeous."
"We had gone beyond a point of no return- and we were ready for it, for a point of no return...We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
"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."