Quote

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

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
Madness
Inner
Follow
Listening
Friends
Care
Moonlight
Writing
Concentrate
Hide

More quotes by Allen Ginsberg

Image
Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
Allen Ginsberg
Image
Inside skull vast as outside skull
Allen Ginsberg
Image
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
Image
It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.
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
Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!
Allen Ginsberg
Image
Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?
Allen Ginsberg
Image
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.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
To get on screen with the Talking Asshole, quite a feat. And it's certainly going to be a cult film that people will be seeing.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
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
Image
we're all golden sunflowers inside.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
Allen Ginsberg
Image
We are all exposed to the flash bulb of death.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
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
Image
he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it
Allen Ginsberg
Image
I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
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.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
Presumably, if you see spirit at the moment it gained access, then it'll be dropped.
Allen Ginsberg