and now, a nod to the Beats...



  
“On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There’s no need to say another word.” Jack Kerouac
  
”I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.” Jack Kerouac

“Grinding my teeth for lack of love, walking into a cathedral is like walking into a cold stove, like into a glove.”— Writing Poems is a Saintly Thing, Peter Orlovsky