Who is Jack Kerouac

Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He "learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens." During World War II, he served in the United States Merchant Marine; he completed his first novel at the time, which was published more than 40 years after his death. His first published book was The Town and the City (1950), and he achieved widespread fame and notoriety with his second, On the Road, in 1957. It made him a beat icon, and he went on to publish 12 more novels and numerous poetr...
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Jack Kerouac Poems

• One Flower
  One flower
  on the cliffside
  Nodding at the canyon
  ...
• On Tears
  Tears is the break of my brow,
  The moony tempestuous
  Sitting downIn dark railyards
  When to see my motherâ??s face ...
• Bus East
  Society has good intentions Bureaucracy is like a friend
  5 years ago - other furies other losses -
  
  America's ...
• Daydreams For Ginsberg
  I lie on my back at midnight
  hearing the marvelous strange chime
  of the clocks, and know it's mid-
  night and in that instant the whole ...
• How To Meditate
  -lights out-
  fall, hands a-clasped, into instantaneous
  ecstasy like a shot of heroin or morphine,
  the gland inside of my brain discharging ...

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Jack Kerouac Quotes

• The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to love, mad to talk, mad to be saved the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
• Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
• The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.
• I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.
• 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, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

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Comments about Jack Kerouac

• Jmmakabayantnt: “our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. but no matter, the road is life.” -jack kerouac
• Ofnecmi: “the only truth is music.” –jack kerouac
• Krikkitmotel: i bring a sort of "jack kerouac" vibe that "my physical and mental health" really doesn't appreciate
• Larkin63vtyjc: beat generation in new york: a walking tour of jack kerouac's city ucz8wxs
• Geiselie: “maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” — jack kerouac

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