Quotes About Allen Ginsberg

#1. With dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and cock and endless balls

Allen Ginsberg

#2. Brainwash cried Romney, the Governor of Pollution

Allen Ginsberg

#3. Eat Eat said the sign

Allen Ginsberg

#4. The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Allen Ginsberg

#5. We the People - shelling the Vietcong

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#6. Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?

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#7. I feel my life is sterile, I am unbloomed, unused, I have nothing I can have that I will ever want, only some love, only dearness and tenderness, to make me weep. I am moved now and sad and unhappy beyond cold unhappiness, beyond any inconvenience that will cause you by my affection.

Allen Ginsberg

#8. Who'll come lie down in the dark with me
Belly to belly and knee to knee
Who'll look into my hooded eye
Who'll lie down under my darkened thigh?

Allen Ginsberg

#9. ...my man world will blow up

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#10. Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa!

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#11. YOUR NAME IS WRITTEN IN HEAVEN

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#12. The bewildering beauty of Paris ...

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#13. The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it's a relief to realize you can let go.

Allen Ginsberg

#14. Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.

Allen Ginsberg

#15. Without even intending it, there is that little shiver of a moment in time preserved in the crystal cabinet of the mind. A little shiver of internal space. That's what I was looking for.

Allen Ginsberg

#16. I write poetry because I want to be alone and want to talk to people.

Allen Ginsberg

#17. O victory forget you're underwear we're free.

Allen Ginsberg

#18. I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.

Allen Ginsberg

#19. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

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#20. I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

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#21. What came is gone forever every time

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#22. The Package is the Product, onomatopoeticized

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#23. enraptured in hypnotic war

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#24. The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.

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#25. I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost success. In other words, in the long run, after a certain age, the motives for success, pride or oppressing people or getting power.

Allen Ginsberg

#26. America, why are your libraries full of tears?

Allen Ginsberg

#27. Electric Networks spread fear of murder on the streets

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#28. Burroughs a purest ignu his haircut is a cream his left finger pinkey chopped off for early ignu reasons metaphysical spells love spells with psychoanalysts
his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars

Allen Ginsberg

#29. From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen." But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.

Allen Ginsberg

#30. Central Intelligence cutting Meo opium fields! China Lobby copping poppies in Burma! How long this Addict government support our oil-burner matter-habit

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#31. I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.

Allen Ginsberg

#32. Television concentrates its blue flicker of death in the frontal lobe

Allen Ginsberg

#33. Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"]

Allen Ginsberg

#34. Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.

Allen Ginsberg

#35. My national resources consist of two joints of marijuana millions of genitals an unpublishable private literature that goes 1400 miles an hour and twenty-five-thousand mental institutions.

Allen Ginsberg

#36. Millions of fathers in rain
Millions of mothers in pain
Millions of brothers in woe
Millions of sisters nowhere to go
Millions of daughters walk in the mud
Millions of children wash in the flood
A million girls vomit and groan
Millions of families hopeless alone

Allen Ginsberg

#37. America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.

Allen Ginsberg

#38. To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.

Allen Ginsberg

#39. America this is quite serious

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#40. So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what he is noticing, continuous alertness to catch himself thinking or seeing, devotional attentiveness to the world he's moving through.

Allen Ginsberg

#41. Scream in despair over Meat and Metal Microphone

Allen Ginsberg

#42. The madman bum and angel beat in time with the absolute heart of the poem butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years

Allen Ginsberg

#43. May no Evil Eye peek thru window, keyhole or gunsight at his white haired face!

Allen Ginsberg

#44. Let go of the spirit of the departed, and continue the celebration of your own life.

Allen Ginsberg

#45. Everybody's serious but me.

Allen Ginsberg

#46. Clock hands move noonward

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#47. Scientist alone is true poet.

Allen Ginsberg

#48. senseless, senseless coughs of emotion

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#49. What is obscenity? And to whom?

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#50. A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

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#51. We're all golden sunflowers inside.

Allen Ginsberg

#52. Artificial trees, robot sofas,
Ignorant cars-
One Way Street to Heaven

Allen Ginsberg

#53. Our heads are round so thought can change direction

Allen Ginsberg

#54. Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!

Allen Ginsberg

#55. I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

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#56. The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

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#57. I've listened to and know Allen Ginsberg music and met him a couple of times, but I don't have any strong statements to make.

William S. Burroughs

#58. Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on.

Allen Ginsberg

#59. Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.

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#60. Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.

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#61. My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.

Patti Smith

#62. What prophecy actually is is not that you actually know that the bomb will fall in 1942. It's that you know and feel something that somebody knows and feels in a hundred years. And maybe articulate it in a hint - a concrete way that they can pick up on in a hundred years.

Allen Ginsberg

#63. Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and the true art.

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#64. I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense.

Allen Ginsberg

#65. To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

Allen Ginsberg

#66. Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.

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#67. I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

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#68. Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.

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#69. When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.

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#70. A missle lost Unprogrammed

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#71. No more to say, and nothing to weep for

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#72. One does not know yet whether Christ was
God or the Devil -
Buddha is more reassuring.

Allen Ginsberg

#73. Subject is known by what she sees.

Allen Ginsberg

#74. Sometime I'll lay down my wrath,
As I lay my body down
Between the ache of breath and breath,
Golden slumber in the bone.

Allen Ginsberg

#75. ..I'm not sorry (America)

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#76. Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, "Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, "LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS!

Legs McNeil

#77. Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

David Amram

#78. I'm with you in Rockland
where you scream in a straightjacket that you're losing the game of the actual pingpong of the abyss

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#79. Eat Meat and your a beast

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#80. I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

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#81. Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!

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#82. America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set.
America is this correct?

Allen Ginsberg

#83. Let the straight flower bespeak its purpose in straightness - to seek the light.
Let the crooked flower bespeak its purpose in crookedness - to seek the light.
Let the crookedness and straightness bespeak the light.

Allen Ginsberg

#84. Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

Ken Kesey

#85. I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.

Allen Ginsberg

#86. I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee' ... I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.

Robert Rauschenberg

#87. Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow.

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#88. Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!

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#89. All Revolution and Consumption, Manufacture and Communication

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#90. I had been up all night with my old friend Allen Ginsberg, the poet, and we had both slid into the abyss of whiskey madness and full-bore substance abuse. It was wonderful,

Hunter S. Thompson

#91. Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.

Allen Ginsberg

#92. My father shared the ethos of many of the beat writers and was a friend of Allen Ginsberg. Probably for 25 years of my father's life, He had been an itinerant piano player and so traveled the road with bands and that sort of thing.

Anne Waldman

#93. Whole intellects disgorged in total recall for seven days and nights with brilliant eyes, meat for the Synagogue cast on the pavement,

Allen Ginsberg

#94. We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

Allen Ginsberg

#95. The universe is mad, slightly mad.

Allen Ginsberg

#96. Breathe when you breathe. Walk where you walk. Talk when you talk. Cry when you cry. Die when you die. Let go when you let go ...

Allen Ginsberg

#97. ...salute the new sunset

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#98. What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

Rita Dove

#99. Unless Chase Bank quits I prophesy blood violence

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#100. The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy!
The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand
and asshole holy!
Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is
holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an
angel!

Allen Ginsberg