#beat

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A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on the right track, no matter what any of his fellow men say. In his eternal search for truth, the poet is alone. He tries to be timeless in a society built on time.


Jack Kerouac


#beat #early-stories-and-other-writings #jack-kerouac #optimist #prose-poetry

...I remember that my mother had always said to be polite and finish my meal. At last he gave no more struggles. The deed was done. Now the boat contained four men, not one heartbeat among us. The fate they had destined for another claimed them as well. The irony of it all was more delicious than the blood consumed. -- Quote by Lane DeLuca


Wynter Wilkins


#heartbeat #irony #strigoi #vampire #men

For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!


John Lennon


#beatles #concerts #jewelry #music #stage-patter

Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head.


Paul McCartney


#music

I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening to them." "What about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to them?" Lee considered seriously for a moment, then said, "Myself." At the same time he was laughing, Ig was distressed. Not liking the Beatles was almost as bad as not knowing about them at all.


Joe Hill


#the-beatles #music

The machines are too dull when we are lion-poems that move & breathe.


Michael McClure


#lion #machines #nature #poems #poetry

…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.


John Lennon


#christianity #popular-culture #religion #religion

Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian clothes are better.


George Harrison


#beatles #clothes #comfort #style

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.


Paul McCartney


#beatles #character #man #vegetarianism #true

Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus.


John Lennon


#jesus