Allen Ginsberg Quotes

No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

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Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

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America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

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I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences, in sections of two, three or four lines each.

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I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

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Democracy Bah When I hear that I reach for my feather Boa

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Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

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America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood

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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

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Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine, jiggling your knees blankly in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.

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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

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I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

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America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

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Follow your inner moonlight don't hide the madness.

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Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

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With help from the American Civil Liberties Union, they were acquitted after a highly publicized trial, and the judge's ruling established a legal standard for publishing controversial books of redeeming social importance. ... presents a picture of a nightmare world.

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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.

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I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks. . . and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. . . . Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences . . .

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Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture.

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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

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Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine, Jiggling yr knees blankeyed in the rain, When it snows in yr nose you catch cold in yr brain.

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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

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... who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war, who were expelled from the academies for crazy publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull.

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