“For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.”

Victory in Defeat, p. 36.
The Unknown Eros and Other Poems (1877)

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

Source: All Through the Night

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 194.

Source: A Million Little Pieces

Pero la vida es corta:
viviendo, todo falta;
muriendo, todo sobra.
Act III, sc. vii. Translation from Arthur Terry Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry (Cambridge: CUP, 1993) p. 118.
La Dorotea (1632)

Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein and the Poet (1983), p. 142

"Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956 (1995) and in a letter to Don Allen (1958); published in Heaven & Other Poems (1977)

Beloved (1987)