Beat Quotes
There's nothing happy about love at all!! I would rather have not known real love... if it hurts this much.
Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.
So I did something I've never done, and put your live above my own, because no matter how hard I try to convey it, I'm not heartless. I have a heart and... and it beats for you.
The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.
I know an alcoholic is the worse, but sometimes I wonder if it's better to have a drinking father that lives at home, or a drinking father, that never comes around.
Maybe I should stop while I'm aheadNay, I swim with sea-demons no sweet summer tuned radioover my sunless desertscapehow does it burn without the sun?
Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them.
...music, if it really resonates, will beat somewhere right near your heartbeat. That music will make sense to you...because it's in rhythm with your soul.
Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back.
Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son to it.
If I had a soul I sold itfor pretty wordsIf I had a body I usedit up spurting my essenceAllen Ginsberg warns youdont follow my pathto extinction
Stay hungry on the path you trod to overcome all odds though fate & the gods seem to pepper your plate with a barrage of sabotage.
Poets are Prisoners8-29-2015Poets are prisonersPractitioners, commissioners &conditioners of the spoken word Caged by their own mindsWords are shackles
His whisper was the softest sound I ever knew, which seemed to bring the loudest heartbeat.
A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of.
Last night the nightingale sat by my window and sang her joyous song of love...Though I loved it, my heart silently missed the beautiful song of your heart beat!
Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.
Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe.
Bedtime is daytime, and we come into bloom after midnight.
If you cant beat 'em cooperate 'em to death!
Are you in love? What makes your heart beat faster? What do you want people to think about when they hear your name.
Meeting new people is just remembering faces of God we've forgotten.
Like seasonless fowl we migrate…from East Coast to West Coastand back and forth again, for a job, for a friend, for a change, for a kick.
…love is by definition freeand if he choose to gowhen I would have him stayperhaps I'll die a bitbut I'd rather sothan taste his absent minded kissand lie uneasy in a masked embrace
These days, I'm finding it harder and harder to breathe. My chest pounds with every heart beat like you're here, again, standing in front of me, your two hands around my neck.
Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.
Find strength in your heartbeat, than weakness with a beat heart. Take each breath as another chance, and love for a new day.
In our frenzied attempts to catch up with life, we run right past it. Once we have run past it, what we are in reality attempting to catch is ourselves.
... and you might say “no, you will never do that, that’s not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were”and I will say“watch me”for I never did this to fit inor stand outbut to live.
Science can make a heart beat with ventilator, but there is only one power that makes it live, that is LOVE which is the purest form of FAITH.
My heart beats so hard, I feel like I have an earthquake inside of me. It's weighing me down and my hands shake with the need of safety and comfort.