Allen Ginsberg Quotes

all Revolution and Consumption, Manufacture and Communication

The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene

Sometime I’ll lay down my wrath,
As I lay my body down
Between the ache of breath and breath,
Golden slumber in the bone.

Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!

What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?

It occurs to me that I am America.
I am talking to myself again.

What is obscenity? And to whom?

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge this actually happened and walked away unknown and forgotten into the ghostly daze of Chinatown soup alleyways & firetrucks, not even one free beer

I have no other possessions of value but my soul.

I smoke marijuana every chance I get.

Poor dead flower? when did you forget you were a flower?

The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight,the weight we carry is love.

Burroughs ... his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars.

What prophecy actually is is not that you actually know that the bomb will fall in 1942. It’s that you know and feel something that somebody knows and feels in a hundred years. And maybe articulate it in a hint — a concrete way that they can pick up on in a hundred years.