Allen Ginsberg Quotes

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

America I've given you all and now I'm nothing...
I can't stand my own mind.
America when will we end the human war?
Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.

I don’t want to suffer any more, I have had my mind broken open over and over before, I have been isolate and loveless always. I have not slept with anyone since I saw you, not because I was faithful but because I am afraid and I know no one. I will always be afraid I will always be worthless, I will always be alone till I die and I will be tormented long after you leave me.

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.

America, Sacco & Vanzetti must not die.

Who scribbled all night rocking and rolling over lofty incantations which in the yellow morning were stanzas of gibberish.

Nobody wants to hear about your feelings, darling, tell me what you see!

Who dreamt
and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space
through images juxtaposed,
and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images
and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun
and dash of consciousness together
jumping with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus
to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human
prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame

Anger falling asleep at the heart

The CIA and the Mafia are in cahoots

the day of the publication of the true literature of the American body will be day of Revolution
the revolution of the sexy lamb

The war is language,
language abused
for Advertisement,
language used
like magic for power on the planet.

Sunflower poised against the sunset, crackly bleak and dusty with the smut and smog and smoke of olden locomotives in its eye — corolla of bleary spikes pushed down and broken like a battered crown, seeds fallen out of its face, soon-to-be-toothless mouth of sunny air, sunrays obliterated on its hairy head like a dried wire spiderweb,
leaves stuck out like arms out of the stem, gestures from the sawdust root, broke pieces of plaster fallen out of the black twigs, a dead fly in its ear

This is the one and only
firmament; therefore
it is the absolute world.
There is no other world.
The circle is complete.
I am living in Eternity.
The ways of this world
are the ways of Heaven.

LSD Shakti-snake settles like Gas into Consciousness