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Allen Ginsberg
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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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More quotes by Allen Ginsberg
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found - the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.
Allen Ginsberg
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
Allen Ginsberg
Presumably, if you see spirit at the moment it gained access, then it'll be dropped.
Allen Ginsberg
Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.
Allen Ginsberg
Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!
Allen Ginsberg
The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.
Allen Ginsberg
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.
Allen Ginsberg
Mind is shapely, Art is shapely.
Allen Ginsberg
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
Allen Ginsberg
Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!
Allen Ginsberg
Subject is known by what she sees.
Allen Ginsberg
Follow your inner moonlight don't hide the madness.
Allen Ginsberg
Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!
Allen Ginsberg
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.
Allen Ginsberg
what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination
Allen Ginsberg
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
I've got enough money to live where I want, but I don't want to move.Go out and have sexual adventures in Burma.
Allen Ginsberg
Now I have enough money to travel wherever I want, but I haven't got the health.
Allen Ginsberg
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.
Allen Ginsberg
America, why are your libraries full of tears?
Allen Ginsberg
