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Allen Ginsberg Quotes

The combination of drugs, homosexuality, some good prose recited on screen. . . . In the sweat lodge ceremony we went through, did you get any glimpse of the Ugly Spirit, what that was historically or biographically? Picture Quote #1

I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost success. In other words, in the long run, after a certain age, the motives for success, pride or oppressing people or getting power Picture Quote #1

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization Picture Quote #1

Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit! Picture Quote #1

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The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it’s a relief to realize you can let go Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Let go of the spirit of the departed, and continue the celebration of your own life Picture Quote #1

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 and silent round eyes Starving black angels in human disguise Picture Quote #1

The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid Picture Quote #1

First thoughts are the strongest Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood? Picture Quote #1

America, I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing Picture Quote #1

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa! Picture Quote #1

Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness Picture Quote #1

Things are symbols of themselves Picture Quote #1

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No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love -cannot be bitter, cannot deny, cannot withhold if denied: the weight is too heavy Picture Quote #1

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture Picture Quote #1

I smoke marijuana every chance I get Picture Quote #1

Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets and 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 Picture Quote #1

There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know Picture Quote #1

America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I’m not sorry Picture Quote #1

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Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul! Picture Quote #1

Who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism Picture Quote #1

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd Picture Quote #1

When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred Picture Quote #1

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked Picture Quote #1

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years Picture Quote #1

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The combination of drugs, homosexuality, some good prose recited on screen. . . . In the sweat lodge ceremony we went through, did you get any glimpse of the Ugly Spirit, what that was historically or biographically? (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost success. In other words, in the long run, after a certain age, the motives for success, pride or oppressing people or getting power. (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) 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 Quotes) The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization. (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit! (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it’s a relief to realize you can let go. (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) 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 Quotes) Let go of the spirit of the departed, and continue the celebration of your own life (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) 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 and silent round eyes Starving black angels in human disguise. (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) First thoughts are the strongest (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) 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 Quotes) America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood? (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) America, I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa! (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) Things are symbols of themselves (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love -cannot be bitter, cannot deny, cannot withhold if denied: the weight is too heavy (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) I smoke marijuana every chance I get (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets and 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 Quotes) There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I’m not sorry (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul! (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) Who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked (Allen Ginsberg Quotes) A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years (Allen Ginsberg Quotes)

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