American Poetry

🇺🇸Henry Rollins

Entertainment

b. 1961

"I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain."

🇺🇸Jack Kerouac

Literature

Beat Generation

1922–1969

"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?"

🇺🇸Robin Morgan

Literature

b. 1941

"Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice. And what a practice. The violation of an individual woman is the metaphor for man's forcing himself on whole nations , on nonhuman creatures , and on the planet itself ."

🇺🇸X. J. Kennedy

Literature

1929–2026

"I am one of the endangered species: people who still write in meter and rime."