Beat Writer

Famous quotes containing the words beat and/or writer:

    “The dews drop slowly and dreams gather: unknown spears
    Suddenly hurtle before my dream-awakened eyes,
    And then the clash of fallen horsemen and the cries
    Of unknown perishing armies beat about my ears.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “A pathological business, writing, don’t you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!”
    —Hans Magnus Enzensberger (b. 1929)