Beat Poetry Quotes
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Beat Poetry Quotes & Sayings
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Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience.
It is not necessarily comfortable.
It is not necessarily safe. — Lenore Kandel
It is not necessarily comfortable.
It is not necessarily safe. — Lenore Kandel
We're going to pray a lot and picket a lot.
— Cesar Chavez
We are the instruments of genius, yet more the rhythm and less the drum as each expanding beat arises.
— Heather K. O'Hara
A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters
— Julio Cortazar
If you can't beat em: Poem.
— David Rowe
I'm going to become a beat poet and a lesbian!
— Benjamin R. Smith
I'm not cute...I'm dangerous.
— Tish Thawer
If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.
— Brad Leithauser
Come on cats, let's go.
Let's teach those old dog cheap trick beatniks some new kicks and bottle up and blow. — Harry Whitewolf
Let's teach those old dog cheap trick beatniks some new kicks and bottle up and blow. — Harry Whitewolf
Should I get married? Should I be good?
— Gregory Corso
Sing, of delight drink deep,
Drain spring by cups, not by thimbles.
Heart step up your beat!
Our breasts be the brass of cymbals. — Vladimir Mayakovsky
Drain spring by cups, not by thimbles.
Heart step up your beat!
Our breasts be the brass of cymbals. — Vladimir Mayakovsky
Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for.
— Carl Sandburg
Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
— Macklemore
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
— Allen Ginsberg
We all understand that genius doesn't guarantee success, but it's seductive to assume that success must come from genius.
— Leonard Mlodinow
I've got feathers in my hair,
I get down to beat poetry. — Lana Del Rey
I get down to beat poetry. — Lana Del Rey
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
— John Ruskin
But why not float if you have no goal? That is another question. It is unquestionably better to enjoy the floating than to swim in uncertainty.
— Hunter S. Thompson
There have been so many times
i have seen a man wanting to weep
but
instead
beat his heart until it was unconscious. — Nayyirah Waheed
i have seen a man wanting to weep
but
instead
beat his heart until it was unconscious. — Nayyirah Waheed
The machines are too dull when we
are lion-poems that move & breathe. — Michael McClure
are lion-poems that move & breathe. — Michael McClure
Any excuse will serve a tyrant
— Aesop
I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
— Victor Cruz
I thought of rhyme alone,
For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble
And make the daylight sweet once more ... — William Butler Yeats
For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble
And make the daylight sweet once more ... — William Butler Yeats
Poetry without words, you are, the beat to my hearts rhythm.
— N'Zuri Za Austin
Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.
— Lenore Kandel
Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
— Samuel Johnson
If there is passion, let me feel its heat.
I want my heart to beat fast,
my breath raspy, my skin to burn. — Susie Clevenger
I want my heart to beat fast,
my breath raspy, my skin to burn. — Susie Clevenger
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
forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love
Tonight the night is full; — Gregory Corso
I eat a catfish sandwich
with onions and red sauce
20c. (Havana 1953) — Allen Ginsberg
with onions and red sauce
20c. (Havana 1953) — Allen Ginsberg