Poetry Quote by Jack Kerouac — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.”

“Love is bitter, death is sweet.”

“After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.”

“I'd rather be thin than famous”

“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.”

“The only truth is music.”

“I don't believe in God today.”

“The forest rose like a dream”

“we are the boat”

“Enjoy yourselves. And Hap: Don't let Umber near the arrows and bows; he's liable to shoot himself in the nose." Dodd grinned and snapped the reins, and the carriage rolled away.”

“Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.”

“The stars are forth, the moon above the tops”