Lew Welch Professions : Poet Born : August 16, 1926 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Lew Welch Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight. Lew Welch flashlights enlightenment needs Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe nobody's ever really seen. How many can you find? Lew Welch circles feet steps The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day. Lew Welch persian ordinary-days ordinary Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors