“Allen’s highshchool yearbook page with classmates inscriptions. June 1943”

“hates dull teachers and Republicans.”

William Carlos Williams, ca 1941 via Beinecke Collection

taketheatrain:

From Allen to Jack, 1948

(Source: lk-shaw)

Jack Kerouac - 1942 Naval Reserve photograph - courtesy The Archive - Sketches on Kerouac

Allen Ginsberg, self portrait in AP darkroom, 1949. Used for cover of Gates of Wrath. c. Allen Ginsberg Estate

(Source: ginsbergblog.blogspot.com)

Allen Ginsberg, and brother Eugene Brooks (in uniform), Photobooth, 1944. c. Allen Ginsberg Estate

fuckyeahthebeatgeneration:

Aboard the USS John Blair 1947

I shall keep in contact with all things that cross my path, and trust all things that do not cross my path, and exert more greatly for further and further visions of the other world, and preach (if I can) in my work, and love, and attempt to hold down my lonely vanities so as to connect more and more with all things (and kinds of people), and believe that my consciousness of life and eternity is not a mistake, or a loneliness, or a foolishness - but a warm dear love of our poor predicament which by the grace of Mysterious God will be solved and made clear to all of us in the end, maybe only…Otherwise I cannot live. —  Jack Kerouac, Journal Entry: August 1949 (via shawndorman)

fuckyeahbeatgeneration:

William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac on the cover of Kulchur Magazine, 1944

I am lonely, Neal, alone, and always I am frightened. I need someone to love me and kiss me & sleep with me; I am only a child and have the mind of a child. I have been miserable without you because I had depended on you to take care of me for love of me, and now that you have altogether rejected me, what can I do, what can I do? —  Allen Ginsberg to Neal Cassady, fall 1947 (via fuckyeahbeatgeneration)