Beat Generation
Beat generation is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.
12 thinkers366 quotesTop field: Literature
"Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same."
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🇺🇸William S. Burroughs
Literature
Beat Generation
1914–1997
"A ghost in daylight on a crowded street."
129 quotes
🇺🇸Jack Kerouac
Literature
Beat Generation
1922–1969
"Be in love with your life, every detail of it."
77 quotes
🇩🇪Charles Bukowski
Literature
Beat Generation
1920–1994
"Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience."
75 quotes
🇨🇦Brion Gysin
Literature
Beat Generation
1916–1986
"I Am the Artist when I am Open. When I am closed I am Brion Gysin."
10 quotes
🇺🇸Joan Vollmer
Literature
Beat Generation
1923–1951
7 quotes
🇺🇸Gary Snyder
Literature
Beat Generation
b. 1930
"1991 audio interview with Gary Snyder by Don Swaim of CBS Radio - RealAudio"
12 quotes
🇺🇸Amiri Baraka
Literature
Beat Generation
1934–2014
"I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with — ... namely America..."
7 quotes
🇺🇸Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Literature
Beat Generation
1919–2021
"Poetry is the shadow cast by our imaginations."
3 quotes
🇺🇸Lenny Bruce
Entertainment
Beat Generation
1925–1966
"Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government."
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🇺🇸Josephine Miles
Literature
Beat Generation
1911–1985
"In the roots of grammar, the stems of logic and the flowers of rhetoric take their being."
1 quotes
🇺🇸Richard Brautigan
Literature
Beat Generation
1935–1984
"all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds."
7 quotes
🇺🇸Paul Bowles
Music
Beat Generation
1910–1999
"Paul Bowles, The Art of Fiction No. 67" interview by Jeffrey Bailey, in The Paris Review"
26 quotes
Notable Quotes
"People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be."
— Charles Bukowski, b. 1920View →
"I drive around the streetsan inch away from weeping,ashamed of my sentimentality andpossible love."
— Charles Bukowski, b. 1920View →
"And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves."
— Jack Kerouac, b. 1922View →
"If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand in centerscentersof what I am ofwhat remains."
— Charles Bukowski, b. 1920View →
"my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw"
— Charles Bukowski, b. 1920View →