At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying...
Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son to it.
It's impossible to fall of mountains you fool!
Meanwhile the sunsets are mad orange fools raging in the gloom....
A poet is a blind optimist.The world is against him formany reasons. But thepoet persists. He believesthat he is on the right track,no matter what any of his fellow men say. In hiseternal search for t...
What is the universe but a lot of wavesAnd a craving desire is a wave…
I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air - air you can kiss - and palms.
We got out of the car for air and suddenly both of us were stoned with joy to realize that in the darkness all around us was fragrant green grass and the smell of fresh manure and warm waters. 'We're...
The trouble with fashions is you want to fuck the women in their fashions but when the time comes they always take them off so they don't get wrinkled.Face it, the really great fucks in a man's life w...
I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that Nothing...
And suddenly, not a soul's at the store as for other & similar & just as blank reasons, they've gone to the silence, the suppers of their own mystery.
And at night the river flows, it bears pale stars on the holy water, some sink like veils, some show like fish, the great moon that once was rose now high like a blazing milk flails its white reflecti...
The floors of bus stations are the same all over the country, always covered with butts and spit and they give a feeling of sadness that only bus stations have.
Hateful bitch of a world, it wouldn't ever last.
I clearly saw the skeleton underneathall this show of personalitywhat is left of a manand all his pride but bones?
Sal, straight, no matter where I live, my trunk's always sticking out from under the bed, I'm ready to leave or get thrown out. I've decided to leave everything out of my hands. You've seen me try and...
The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.
It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her...
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
Texas is undeniable...We were already almost out of America and yet definitely in it and in the middle of where it's maddest.