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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

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

Unquestioning automatons
blindly marching to the beat -
an eerie crunching sound
hoards of shuffling feet ...
(from silent moments) — Muse

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

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

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

I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap. — Keith Stanfield

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. — Macklemore

Git'er Done
They beat their swords upon their shields
To no beast or man would they yield — Muse

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

Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it. — Lenore Kandel

I've got feathers in my hair,
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

The machines are too dull when we
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

In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you. — Joe Abercrombie

I thought of rhyme alone,
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

Let the wet earth embrace you firmly, soundly.
She needs to be revived, she needs to beat like a heart
full of adrenaline inside a chest. — V.S. Atbay

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 think of New York City lost in stars
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