Beat Tweets

Quotes from the Beats as tweets

[Beat Tweets @tweets_beat]

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time

[Beat Tweets @tweets_beat]

the sea beyond the city at the end of the land #Kerouac #visionsofcody

[Beat Tweets @tweets_beat]

I don’t care—
the low yellow
Moon loves me
#Kerouac #haiku

[Beat Tweets @tweets_beat]

workers driving home dogtired from work thru red clay cuts of Time #Kerouac #sketches

[Beat Tweets @tweets_beat]

I’m mad to go to you, Solitude—who will carry me there? #PhilipLamantia #high

[Beat Tweets @tweets_beat]

And soon the whole joint is rocking / And everybody talking and Charlie Parker / Whistling them on to the brink of eternity #Kerouac #mexicocityblues #charlieparker

[Beat Tweets @tweets_beat]

who wandered around and around at midnight in the railroad yard wondering where to go, and went, leaving no broken hearts #Ginsberg #howl

[Beat Tweets @tweets_beat]

dug her, she dug me #Kerouac #visionsofcody

[Beat Tweets @tweets_beat]

“Where are you going?”—Just as you cant explain to the police, you cant explain to society “Looking for peace.” #Kerouac #desolationangels

[Beat Tweets @tweets_beat]

It dont make no sense, the world is too magical #Kerouac #desolationangels

[Beat Tweets @tweets_beat]

with your eyes of strikes and smokestacks #Ginsberg #kaddish

[Beat Tweets @tweets_beat]

Her actual house, the actual light that actually upon her was bestowing and around her bathing, mote by mote made rare gold, dear magic, was the common hysterical light of wonder #Kerouac #maggiecassidy

[Beat Tweets @tweets_beat]

the time you stopped a poem in the middle of our drive over the nebraska hills and into colorado, odetta singing, the whole world singing in me the triumph of our revolution in the air #DianeDiPrima #poeminpraiseofmyhusband

[Beat Tweets @tweets_beat]

Alva Laverne Dodge City, Kan. Cimarron Garden City Syracuse Lamar, Colo. Las Animas La Junta Rocky Ford Pueblo Colorado Spgs. Denver Idaho Spgs. Vernal, Utah Salt Lake City Wendover, Nev. #Kerouac #sketches

[Beat Tweets @tweets_beat]

Train tunnel, too dark / for me to write: that / “Men are ignorant” #Kerouac #haiku

[Beat Tweets @tweets_beat]

who scribbled all night rocking and rolling over lofty incantations which in the yellow morning were stanzas of gibberish #Ginsberg #howl

[Beat Tweets @tweets_beat]

I am depressed, darling / the power of belief / is from me #JoanneKyger #everydayiburnastickofincenseinfrontof

[Beat Tweets @tweets_beat]

but we cling to each other / as if each thought the other was a raft #DianeDiPrima #poeminpraiseofmyhusband

[Beat Tweets @tweets_beat]

Crossing the football field, / coming home from work. / The lonely business man. #Kerouac #haiku

[Beat Tweets @tweets_beat]

Revelations of the loose mind in Essence connection #Kerouac #bookofdreams

[Beat Tweets @tweets_beat]

all the efforts my father had made to make living something to be interested about #Kerouac #desolationangels