Kerouac list

Jack Kerouac’s List of 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Prose and Life




 * Scribbled secret notebooks and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy


 * Submissive to everything, open, listening


 * Try never get drunk outside yr own house


 * Be in love with yr life


 * Something that you feel will find its own form


 * Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind


 * Blow as deep as you want to blow


 * Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind


 * The unspeakable visions of the individual


 * No time for poetry but exactly what is


 * Visionary tics shivering in the chest


 * In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you


 * Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition


 * Like Proust be an old teahead of time


 * Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog


 * The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye


 * Write in recollection and amazement for yourself


 * Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea


 * Accept loss forever


 * Believe in the holy contour of life


 * Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind


 * Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better


 * Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning


 * No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge


 * Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it 26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form


 * In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness


 * Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better


 * You’re a Genius all the time


 * Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven