36 Richard Brautigan Quotes

Richard Brautigan quotes

1. Forsaken, fucking in the cold, eating each other, lost runny noses, complaining all the time like so many people that we know

2. Thinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I was alone.

3. Everybody wants to go to bed with everybody else, they're lined up for blocks, so I'll go to bed with you. They won't miss us.

4. A friend came over to the house a few days ago and read one of my poems. He came back today and asked to read the same poem over again. After he finished reading it, he said, 'It makes me want to write poetry.'

5. I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, and all watched over by machines of loving grace.

6. if a girl likes me a lot and starts getting real nervous and suddenly begins asking me funny questions and looks sad if I give the wrong answers and she says things like, 'Do you think it's going to rain?' and I say, 'It beats me,' and she says, 'Oh,' and looks a little sad at the clear blue California sky, I think: Thank God, it's you, baby, this time Instead of me.

7. All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

8. I'm in a constant process of thinking about things. I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

9. Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

10. It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

11. I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come. --So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away, p.38

12. More poems by Brautigan||

1. All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this goddamn world upside down to do it.

2. “All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this God-damn world upside down to do it.”

3. I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.

4. I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I sat there watching their living room shining out of the dark beside the pond. It looked like a fairy-tale functioning happily in the post-World War II gothic of America before television crippled the imagination and turned people indoors and away from living out their own fantasies with dignity. Anyway, I just kept getting smaller and smaller beside the pond, more and more unnoticed in the darkening summer grass until I disappeared into the 32 years that have passed since then.

5. Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.

6. Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to people when you try to help their broken hearts, but words can't help at all. It's just the sound of another human voice that makes the only difference. There's nothing you're ever going to say that's going to make anybody happy when they're feeling shitty about losing somebody that they love.

7. This morning I saw a coyote walking through the sagebrush right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China. The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming, except that there were whales passing below. That’s what this country does for you. Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room to get outside its marrow.

8. Love Poem ـــــــــ It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.

9. In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.

10. If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

11. He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.

12. A sombrero fell out of the sky and landed on the main street of town in front of the mayor, his cousin, and a person out of work. The day was scrubbed clean by the desert air. The sky was blue. It was the blue of human eyes, waiting for something to happen. There was no reason for a sombrero to fall out of the sky. No airplane or helicopter was passing overhead and it was not a religious holiday.

13. There are spiders living comfortably in my house while the wind howls outside. They aren't bothering anybody. If I were a fly, I'd have second thoughts, but I'm not, so I don't.

14. Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.

15. The American humorist sat on his couch suffering thoughts of her, trying to figure out how to win back her affections, wondering what had happened between them or just tumbling head-over-heels down into romantic oblivion where the image of a remembered kiss provokes bottomless despair and makes death seem like the right idea.He experienced the basics of love ended.

16. Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

17. A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the Ferris wheel. Electric green and red tears flowed down his furry cheeks. He looked like a boat out on the dark water.

18. The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.

19. Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.

20. My teachers could have easily ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

21. There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

22. He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.

23. Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words. Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.

24. Her sunny side was always up.