Quotes Tagged With :kerouac

Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara.O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac....

Did you ever stand on a street corner in American at five o'clock in the morning?

Hateful bitch of a world, it wouldn't ever last.

For Kerouac, the embodiment of American Zen was Gary Snyder, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Buddhist poet....

writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an "urban Thoreau") set forth to redefine and rediscover....

Defining moment in new telepathist's life, moment when intuitive individual learns most of society isn't....

I was impressed with Jack [Kerouac]’s commitment to serious writing at the expense of everything else....

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

...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as....

If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in....