Allen Ginsberg quotes - page 3

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. (Allen Ginsberg)
The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!
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I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.
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I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly. God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.
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Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?
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Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!
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I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
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what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination.
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What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?
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Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
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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. (Allen Ginsberg)
This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven.
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My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.
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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.
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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?
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Many seek and never see, anyone can tell them why. O they weep and O they cry and never take until they try unless they try it in their sleep and never some until they die. I ask many, they ask me. This is a great mystery.
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The war is language, language abused for Advertisement, language used like magic for power on the planet.
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Nobody knows whether we were catalysts or invented something, or just the froth riding on a wave of its own. We were all three, I suppose.
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America, Sacco & Vanzetti must not die.
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The CIA and the Mafia are in cahoots.
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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction. (Allen Ginsberg)
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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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, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
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Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
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