Great Divide Quotes

The poem was my anger against an Icelandic NATO airbase’s G.I.’s machine gunning whales from power boats. It lifted me from concern that the poem should be a ballad into its being projective verse--and that may have had a lot to do with who I am artistically. Certainly I was enraged and projective verse outlined the energy of the anger.
Mike McClure

I believe in the religious experience. It’s one of the primary experiences. I don’t believe that one needs God in order to have religious experience. Meister Eckhart said that belief in God negates the ability to experience God. I don’t want to know. I want the situation to manifest itself in me. From all the realms.
Mike McClure