Finishing up Jack Kerouac’s novel: The Town and The City. Its the second time I have read it, and its an interesting read. The beginning of the book, he mentions the city I was born and raised in, the city I reside in now, and the river which is only two blocks away. When I read his books, I feel like I am sitting across the table from him, and having a mind bending conversation.
He was a great writer, who passed away at what I would call a young age (47 y/o).
Tag Poet
“Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.” ~ Jack Kerouac
Dreaming
“Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.”
~ Petrarch, Poet, 1304 – 1374
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” ~W. H. Auden
Treasured Wealth
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
~Henry David Thoreau
“And so love goes. And so life goes. And so I go.” ~ Neal Cassady
“I don’t think there is any truth. There are only points of view.” ~Allen Ginsberg
“To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.” ~ John Keats
Bleak Midwinter
“In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.”
~ Christina Rossetti, Poet 1830-1894
“If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.” ~Robert Frost
Promises To Keep
“But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.”
~ Robert Frost
“I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.” ~ Sara Teasdale
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ~ W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden, Anglo-American poet ~ 1907 – 1973
To See A World ~ William Blake
Emily Dickinson Poem
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
~Emily Dickinson, “A Word is Dead
John Donne ~ Autumn
No spring nor summer’s beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face….
~John Donne, “Elegy IX: The Autumnal”
Wallace Stevens Poetry Quote
Poem: Walt Whitman, Miracles
“As for me, I know nothing else but miracles,
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
Or stand under the trees in the woods,
Or talk by day with any one I love,
Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love,
Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon…
Or the wonderfulness of the sundown,
Or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring…
What stranger miracles are there?”
– Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Cup Of Coffee – Charles Bukowski
“I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.”
– Charles Bukowski
Poetry Quote
“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.”
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Nature ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some 20 or 30 farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mainstream Media
Born: March 24, 1919
Everything In Life Is Writable
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. -Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Poetry Is….
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.
-Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Fire And Ice ~ Robert Frost
Jack Kerouac
I came to a point where
I needed solitude and
just stop the machine
of thinking and enjoying
what they call living,
I just wanted to lie in
the grass and look at
the clouds.
Jack Kerouac
Robert Frost Quote
Santosh Kalwar Quote On Break-ups
Love Quote by Robert Frost
Edgar Allan Poe Quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote
Born: May 25, 1803 – Died: April 27, 1882
Robert Frost Quote
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
– Robert Frost
Chinua Achebe Quote
“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”
-Chinua Achebe
Born: November 16, 1930
Nigerian poet, novelist, professor and critic
Change
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t
change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.”
– Maya Angelou
Poetry
Jack Kerouac
March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969
Novelist, Painter, Poet
Don’t use the phone.
People are never ready
to answer it. Use poetry.
Silence
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
–Robert Frost
Quote
Culture
Someone
What if someone gave a war & Nobody came?
Life would ring bells of Ecstacy and
Forever be Itself again.
Allen Ginsberg
June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1887
Poet, Writer
Danger
A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger!
Sun Ra
May 22, 1914-May 30, 1993
Composer, Musician, Philosopher, Pianist and Poet
Quote
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids
like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
Daniel Berrigan
Born: May 9, 1921
Activist, Poet, Priest
Quote
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape
of things, a poet in words, a musician in sounds.
— Henry Moore
Wise is he …….
Power
Strength
Learning
Impossible/Possible
Sometimes people don’t want …
Friedrich Nietzsche
Half the world is composed …
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. — Robert Frost
Hell
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
– Robert Frost
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