Quotes Tagged With :kerouac

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

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

I clearly saw the skeleton underneathall this show of personalitywhat is left of a manand all his pride....

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.