Beat Poet Sayings

#1. I'm going to become a beat poet and a lesbian!

Benjamin R. Smith

#2. brilliant and audacious as ever - a beat poet of paranoia. He

Jon Ronson

#3. I think of New York City lost in stars
forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love
Tonight the night is full;

Gregory Corso

#4. In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that in the contemplative life a man may, with now purified mental gaze, pass on to the contemplation of the Divine Light.

Isidore Of Seville

#5. I, too, do not want our children to leave us, Zeba, but it is not our decision to make. We are here only to facilitate their dreams.

Samina Ali

#6. Two silent time zones had now merged to form the standard time of one man's fate; and it is not impossible that the poet in New Wye and the thug in New York awoke that morning at the same crushed beat of their Timekeeper's stopwatch.

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay. What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth. They even speak for others too delicate to use the cruel words.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

#8. Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left hand is doing' ...
Page 100.

Jack Kerouac

#9. There are no barriers to poetry or prophecy; by their nature they are barrier-breakers, bursts of perceptions, lines into infinity. If the poet lies about his vision he lies about himself and in himself; this produces a true barrier.

Lenore Kandel

#10. Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.

Lenore Kandel

#11. Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.

Lenore Kandel

#12. If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.

Rowan Atkinson

#13. Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience.
It is not necessarily comfortable.
It is not necessarily safe.

Lenore Kandel

#14. When Morrissey and I started The Smiths, we thought pop music was the most important thing in the world. It was almost a spiritual thing for us, and because of that, we knew what it meant to be a fan.

Johnny Marr

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

Allen Ginsberg