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Sat, 18 May 2013 09:18:24 -0400

derrierelasalledebains: Jack Kerouac, Morris, Whalen

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:17:32 -0400

derrierelasalledebains:

Jack Kerouac, Morris, Whalen

woodysblues: Gary Snyder resting in a café near Daitoku-ji...

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:16:09 -0400

woodysblues:

Gary Snyder resting in a café near Daitoku-ji temple, where he studied zen. Kyoto, Japan, 1963. Photo by Allen Ginsberg.

I thought, “What a strange thing is man… like in the Bible it says, Who knoweth the spirit of man that looketh upward? This poor kid ten years younger than I am is making me look like a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he hasn’t got any money: he doesn’t need any money, all he needs is his rucksack with those little plastic bags of dried food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this. And what gouty millionaire could get up this rock anyhow? It took us all day to climb.”
And I promised myself that I would begin a new life.
“All over the West, and the mountains in the East, and the desert, I’ll tramp with a rucksack and make it the pure way.”

(Jack Kerouac on Gary Snyder, The Dharma Bums)

thearenee: MoMA untitled. Karl Holmqvist

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:11:46 -0400

thearenee:

MoMA

untitled.

Karl Holmqvist

davidcorvine: A William Burroughs Reader.

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:09:31 -0400

davidcorvine:

A William Burroughs Reader.

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Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:13:32 -0400

"Being beat was far more attractive than staying chained to a brand-new kitchen appliance."

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:11:52 -0400

“Being beat was far more attractive than staying chained to a brand-new kitchen appliance.”

- Brenda Knight, Women of the Beat Generation, on the appeal of the Beat movement to women of the 1950s

mxrg: reeeeeaaaally had to water TH15 one down, you...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:13:35 -0500

mxrg:

reeeeeaaaally had to water TH15 one down, you understand?[.]

derrierelasalledebains: Arrest The Death of Joan Vollmer...

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:27:33 -0500

derrierelasalledebains:

Arrest

The Death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs.

Photos: La Prensa.

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Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:16:37 -0500

Bobby Dylan with Bob Neuwirth

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:14:53 -0500

Bobby Dylan with Bob Neuwirth

Allen Ginsberg - On Neal’s Ashes

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:06:00 -0500

Allen Ginsberg - On Neal’s Ashes

madnessisfreedrom: Jack

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:43:25 -0500

madnessisfreedrom:

Jack

"That ain’t me, that ain’t my face. It wasn’t even me when I was trying to be that..."

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:30:15 -0400

“That ain’t me, that ain’t my face. It wasn’t even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn’t even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.”

- Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

"Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits"

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:30:28 -0400

“Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits”

- Neal Cassady - The First Third

"No love No compassion No intelligence No beauty No humility Twenty-seven years is..."

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:05:10 -0400

“

No love

No compassion

No intelligence

No beauty

No humility

Twenty-seven years is enough

Mother – too late – years of meanness – I’m sorry

Daddy – What happened?

Allen – I’m sorry

Peter – Holy Rose Youth

Betty – Such womanly bravery

Keith – Thank you

Joyce – So girl beautiful

Howard – Baby take care

Leo – Open the windows and Shalom

Carol – Let it happen

Let me out now please –

Please let me in

”

- believed to be Elise Cowen’s last poem before her 1962 suicide

fuckyeahbeatniks: Amiri Baraka, 1997 (by Michele Corleone)

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:04:25 -0400

fuckyeahbeatniks:

Amiri Baraka, 1997 (by Michele Corleone)

fuckyeahbeatniks: Gregory Corso, Boulder Colorado, 1974. Photo...

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:04:23 -0400

fuckyeahbeatniks:

Gregory Corso, Boulder Colorado, 1974. Photo c. Rachel Homer

woodysblues: I think of Dean Moriarty…

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:04:53 -0400

woodysblues:

I think of Dean Moriarty…

alanfuckingkhan: the wild freedom of the dance, extasysilent...

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:34:37 -0400

alanfuckingkhan:

the wild freedom of the dance, extasy
silent solitary illumination, entasy

real danger. gambles. and the edge of death.

- What You Should Know to Be a Poet, Gary Snyder