37 Quotes About Beat-generation

It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation.

we met one strange summerin a regular tangle of sticky websyou had the air of angels sweet but I--drowned with the damned spiritsin lava oceans fearing your--foreign static frequency and grey-green eyes(I swear they are even if you--think otherwise): stormscalm ones, calmer than my--raging coals, empty and deadyou speak of souls like you believealways an optimist in pessimisticskin of ivory and titanium mesh...

…of constipation of the brain & diarrhea of the mouth.

বিবাহের অবিরাম বেদনাবিবাহের অবিরাম বেদনা:উরু আর জিভ, হে প্রিয়,এর সঙ্গে বেশ ভারি,তা দাঁতে স্পন্দিত হয়আমরা আংশিদারীর চেষ্টা করিকিন্তু ফিরিয়ে দেয়া হয়, হে প্রিয়,প্রত্যেকে আর প্রত্যেকেএটা হল প্রকাণ্ড হাঙর আর আমরাতার পেটের ভেতরেআনন্দ খুঁজি, কোনও আনন্দযা এর বাইরে জানা যাবে নাদুই বনাম দুই এর সিন্দুকেরমধ্যে এর অবিরাম বেদনা ।

Maybe I should stop while I'm aheadNay, I swim with sea-demons no sweet summer tuned radioover my sunless desertscapehow does it burn without the sun?

I do not wish to escape to myself, I wish to escape from myself. I wish to obliterate my consciousness and my knowledge of independent existence, my guilts, my secretiveness.

Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back.

It’s almost as if Bronson, Ginsberg and Bowie craved the freedom of letting go, of pushing their mind aside and allowing the vampires and demons and all the other freaks to run them so that they could slip away elsewhere

I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk.