Allen Ginsberg Quotes
Allen Ginsberg Quotes
We're all golden sunflowers inside.
3369Concentrate 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.
2000 We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
1469 I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.
2585 I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly.
God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.
1099 Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!
2787 Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
2527 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
4759 one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others
4444 The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy!
The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand
and asshole holy!
Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is
holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an
angel!
2491 Just because I like to suck cock doesn't make me any less American than Jesse Helms.
4643 Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
2317 You know, the guys there were so beautiful - they've lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago.
3101 Absolutes are Coercion.
Change is absolute.
3476 I have no other possessions of value but my soul.
4570 I learned a world from each / one whom I loved
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