Jack
pain mind madness
In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable ache and stab across the mind, the same sighs, the same pain, and above all the same reluctance and fear to approach.
heart passion men
A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.
writing be-kind kind
Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything
4th-of-july thinking america
This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
lying dark kissing
Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God antisexual somehow (p. 148)
silence mountain golden
and silence is the golden mountain
girl pretty-girl graves
Pretty girls make graves
happens
Something great is about to happen to me: I'm about to love somebody very much.
stars icicles mockery
and the stars were icicles of mockery
mean generations use
It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation.
love-you loss forever
Accept loss forever. Be submissive to everything, open, listening. No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge. Be in love with your life.
soul firsts lips
She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.
mean dust world
Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
travel aquarius sky
My witness is the empty sky.