Quote

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.

Allen Ginsberg

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
Autobiographer
Diarist
Musician
Photographer
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Paterson
New Jersey
Irwin Allen Ginsberg
Ayālena Gīnasabārga
Alen Ginzberg
Effort
Solitudes
Small
Endeavoring
Community
Fortunately
Living
Interpret
War
Select
Artist
Wars
Art
Solitude
World
Flesh
Spiritualized

More quotes by Allen Ginsberg

Image
A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
Allen Ginsberg
Image
I learned a world from each / one whom I loved
Allen Ginsberg
Image
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
Allen Ginsberg
Image
Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof huts Wet processions Families walk Stunted boys big heads don't talk Look bony skulls & silent round eyes Starving black angels in human disguise.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
we're all golden sunflowers inside.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
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.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
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.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
Scientist alone is true poet.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air, the bodies of the soul that built the wonderland shuffled and stalked and stalked and lurched in attitudes of immemorial nightmare all around.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
Things are symbols of themselves.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
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.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night
Allen Ginsberg
Image
The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction
Allen Ginsberg
Image
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.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
The suffering itself is not so bad it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.
Allen Ginsberg