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Scattered Poems

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Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac, born on March 12, 1922, in Lowell, Massachusetts, was an influential American novelist. Known for his autobiographical novels and beat literature, his most famous work is 'On the Road'. Kerouac's writings had a profound impact on American culture in the 1960s. more

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“I keep quiet and look out the window. The light is weak and watery-looking, like the sun hast just spilled itself over the horizon and is too lazy to clean itself up. The shadows are as sharp and pointed as needles. I watch three black crows take off simultaneausly from a telephone wire and wish I could take off too, move up, up, up, and watch the ground drop away from me the way it does when you're on an airplane, folding and compressing into itself like an origami figure, until everything is flat and brightly colored - until the world is like a drawing of itself”

“ألم يأت وقت الحصاد بعد !! وهل يا ترى في يومٍ ما ستصبح الذكريات المرة مجرد ذكرى ودرس تعلمته ، تكف عن مطاردتي ومحاصرتي وترهيبي ترى هل سيأت يوم تتغير فيه بعض معتقداتي إذا وجدت من يساعدني على ذلك !!!ويثبت لي بالفعل أن هناك بشراً مازال لديهم وفاءً بالعهد وصدقاً ونبلا وكرماً ومروءة وأن الحب ليس وهما وأن الطيبة ليست غباء وسذاجة وأن النبل عند الفراق ليس عجزاً لو شاء ربي أن ينتهي أجلي قريبا أتمنى أن أعيش هذا اليوم الذي يبتسم فيه القدر لي عبير سليمان”