Quote

War is good business Invest your son

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
Good
Invest
Son
War
Business

More quotes by Allen Ginsberg

Image
If you want to make order, put your own heart in order, and, having put one's heart in order, one can regulate the family order.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
we're all golden sunflowers inside.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
We love to be hurt and we love to have our unhealing wounds opened and reopened again: we sit staring in the mirror of art, fascinated by our own deformities.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!
Allen Ginsberg
Image
Scientist alone is true poet.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
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.
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
When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
I smoke marijuana every chance I get.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
Our heads are round so thought can change direction
Allen Ginsberg
Image
I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas / but not afraid / to speak my lonesomeness in a car, / because not only my lonesomeness / it's Ours, all over America, / O tender fellows --/ & spoken lonesomeness is Prophecy / in the moon 100 years ago or in / the middle of Kansas now.
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
What is obscenity? And to whom?
Allen Ginsberg
Image
Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question How does one become a prophet?]
Allen Ginsberg
Image
America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
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
You are what you think about all day.
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