The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
You aren't ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it--don't plan anything, just go out and do it.
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?
Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
For life is holy and every moment is precious.
Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
The only truth is music.
I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.
LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.
Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.
Something that you feel will find its own form.
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.
Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.
I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.
I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
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