Beat Generation Quotes

“But the beat generation's idolatry of the primitive is not a goon's lust for blood and thunder; it is a quest for the personal, the intuitive, the immediate, the spontaneous, the unthought.”

“The whole Beat Generation was a conspiracy to commit poetry.”

“Being beat is a state of mind, a feeling of being at the bottom of the world, looking up.”

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.”