Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by John Clellon Holmes

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author John Clellon Holmes.

Last updated on November 22, 2024.

John Clellon Holmes was an American author, poet and professor, best known for his 1952 novel Go. Considered the first "Beat" novel, Go depicted events in his life with his friends Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg. He was often referred to as the "quiet Beat" and was one of Kerouac's closest friends. Holmes also wrote what is considered the definitive jazz novel of the Beat Generation, The Horn.

American - Author | March 12, 1926 - March 30, 1988

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The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

John Clellon Holmes

The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.

John Clellon Holmes

Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.

John Clellon Holmes