beautilation: Interviewer: Why can’t you be alone without Yoko?John Lennon: But I can be alone without Yoko, but I just have no wish to be. There’s no reason on earth why I should be alone without Yoko. There’s nothing more important than our relationship, nothing. And we dig being together all the time. Both of us could survive apart but what for? I’m not going to sacrifice love, real love for any whore or any friend or any business, because in the end you’re alone at night and neither of us want to be. and you can’t fill a bed with groupies. It doesn’t work. I don’t want to be a swinger. I’ve been through it all and nothing works better than to have someone you love hold you. i haz dis
thedrollhouse: fuckyeahbeatpoets: Beat authors Bob Donlin, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Robert LaVigne, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti stand outside Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. Photograph: Allen Ginsberg/Corbis.  
thedrollhouse: Jack Kerouac
nickdrake: Beat poets Michael McClure, Allen Ginsberg & Bob Dylan Photographer Dale Smith daubbed this photo session “the last gathering of the beats”