Beatnik Quotes

Beatnik Quote of the day

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.

Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad “Joey”, Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.

I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.

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

If you're too open-minded your brains will fall out.

[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye'dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.

Defining moment in new telepathist's life, moment when intuitive individual learns most of society isn't telepathic, doesn't see auras, doesn't know what life on ethereal astral plane is like.