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

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

“I'd rather be thin than famous”

“the golden eternity is { }”

“They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past and go into the never-ending future, waiting themselves for death, at the foot of the dead, in a holy temple. - I get a vision of myself and the two little boys hung up in a great endless universe with nothing overhead and nothing under bbut the Infinite Nothingness, the Enormousness of it, the dead without number in all directions of existence whether inward into the atom-worlds of your own body or outward to the universe which may only be one atom in an infinity of atom-worlds and each atom-world only a figure of speech - inward, outward, up and down, nothing but emptiness and divine majesty and silence for the two little boys and me.”

“The only truth is music.”

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.”

“Robots are like Mars: they need”

“Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.”

“Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!”

“The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...”

“Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--”

“Twas noontide of summer,”