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Allen Ginsberg Inspirational Quotes (155)

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America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
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You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.
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I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power at any rate it is one difference. In less romantic and visionary terms, I am a Jew, (with powers of introspection and eclecticism attendant, perhaps.) But I am alien to your natural grace, to the spirit which you would know as a participator in America.
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There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.
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The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.
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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.
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Others can measure their visions by what we see.
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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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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.
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The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene
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What is obscenity? And to whom?
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Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.
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All these books are published in Heaven.
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Inside skull vast as outside skull
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Now I have enough money to travel wherever I want, but I haven't got the health.
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We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
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Presumably, if you see spirit at the moment it gained access, then it'll be dropped.
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Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph
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That's what the shaman said. He didn't know what he was up against. He didn't expect the strength and weight and evil intensity of this spirit, this entity, as he called it. The same way the priest in an exorcism has to take on the spirit.
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Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on.
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Our heads are round so thought can change direction
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I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.
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The combination of drugs, homosexuality, some good prose recited on screen. . . . In the sweat lodge ceremony we went through, did you get any glimpse of the Ugly Spirit, what that was historically or biographically?
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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.
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