Beat Hotel

The Beat Hotel was a small, run-down hotel of 42 rooms at 9 Rue Gît-le-Cœur in the Latin Quarter of Paris, notable chiefly as a residence for members of the Beat poetry movement of the mid-20th century

Read more about Beat Hotel:  Overview, Fame With The Beat Generation, Bibliography

Famous quotes containing the words beat and/or hotel:

    “I cannot halt
    The tread, the beat of it, it is my own heart,
    The walls of my room rise, it is still night,
    I have woken again before the word was spelt.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.”
    —Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)