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Jack Kerouac: “I Sit on the Old Broken-Down Pier”

Photographer Unknown, (The Man at the Pier), Photo Shoot

“So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, all all that road going, and all the people dreaming in the immensity of it. . . ”

– Jack Kerouac, On the Road

 

Jack Kerouac: “The Golden Eternities of Past Childhood”

Photographer Unknown,

“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.”

—-Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums