Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouacwas an American novelist and poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 March 1922
CityLowell, MA
CountryUnited States of America
fall mountain taught
Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.
writing want what-you-want
If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?
america land nowhere-to-go
Here I was at the end of America...no more land...and nowhere was nowhere to go but back
trying fathom virgins
Is Virgin you trying to fathom me
scared ghost stranger
I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.
america roof
We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell
ugly
I like it because its ugly
cat moon purring
Holding up my purring cat to the moon. I sighed.
dog humility mad
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
stars lines mold
The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.
promise prison
Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.
dream mean blood
You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all of us...I mean actually it's PAY NOW, FLY LATER
wisdom fighting men
Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.
dream men people
Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.