No time for poetry but exactly what is

Kerouac's Belief and Technique for Modern Prose

List of Essentials

-Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
-Submissive to everything, open, listening
-Try never get drunk outside yr own house
-Be in love with yr life
-Something that you feel will find its own form
-Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
-Blow as deep as you want to blow
-Write what you want bottomless from bottom of mind
-The unspeakable visions of the individual
-No time for poetry but exactly what is
-Visionary tics shivering in the chest
-In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
-Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
-Like Proust be an old teahead of time
-Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
-The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
-Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
-Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
-Accept loss forever
-Believe in the holy contour of life
-Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
-Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better
-Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
-No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
-Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
-Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
-In Praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
-Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
-You're a Genius all the time
-Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven
As ever,
Jack

Saw this here and thought it deserved a repeat. I agree with all of them, and they agree with me.

UPDATE: I think I missed an opportunity to write about this instead of just posting. What truly astounds me about this list is that it was a letter to a buddy of his. Now, I bet all of his letters weren't as un/intentionally amazing as this one, but going back into my gmail, I look at letters I've written to friends. Does anything compare? Does anything really add to the fabric of society and culture?

• Tomorrow: Sunshine. Hot. Heat index near 110F. High 98F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.
• In my opinion golf lessons can NEVER hurt.
• Your bureau dimensions: length = 33.8"height = 46.5"width = 18.7"what fun!
• Guy, we don't need no roof rack. just a sheet and some rope. we'll tie it down through the windows

What we've learned here is that I am not a writer, I have no real advice on how to do anything important, and I either moved a mattress or a body. I must concentrate on writing everything so that it will seem more profound and important upon my untimely demise.