"1. Write on, can't change or go back, involuntary, unrevised, spontaneous, subconscious, pure
2. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for you own joy
3. Submissive to everything, open, listening
4. Be in love with your life every detail of it
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from the bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. Not time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. Work for pithy middle eye out, from the jewel center of interest, swimming in language sea
17. Accept loss forever
18. Believe in the holy contour of life
19. Write in recollection and amazement of yourself
20. Profound struggle with pencil to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
21. Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better
22. No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language and knowledge
23. Write for the world to read and see your exact pictures
24. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
25. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
26. You're a Genius all the time
27. Writer-Director of Earthly Movies produced in Heaven, different forms of the same Holy Gold"
- Jack Kerouac, List of Essentials, 1955
I have always enjoyed reading the following book: "Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation," edited by Carole Tonkinson, Riverhead Books, 1995.
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