Beat Quotes

Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten ...

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

A poet is a blind optimist.The world is against him formany reasons. But thepoet persists. He believ...

I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locom...

The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything. . . ....

A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he i...

I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later...

It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge...

...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left ...

All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart ...

…of constipation of the brain & diarrhea of the mouth.

Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.

See it was like this when we waltz into this place.A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-ste...

...music, if it really resonates, will beat somewhere right near your heartbeat. That music will mak...

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic s...

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

If I had a soul I sold itfor pretty wordsIf I had a body I usedit up spurting my essenceAllen Ginsbe...

America this is quite serious

Shergahn and friend lay like poleaxed steers, and the Daranfelian's greasy hair was thick with potat...