Allen Ginsberg Quotes

No more to say, and nothing to weep for

Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers!

I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly.
God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.

May no Evil Eye peek thru window, keyhole or gunsight at his white haired face!

Television concentrates its blue flicker of death in the frontal lobe

America when will you be angelic?
When will you take off your clothes?

I was so sick that I found myself worrying about the future of man's soul, my own in particular.

"An Eastern Ballad"

I speak of love that comes to mind:
The moon is faithful, although blind;
She moves in thought she cannot speak.
Perfect care has made her bleak.

I never dreamed the sea so deep,
The earth so dark; so long my sleep,
I have become another child.
I wake to see the world go wild.

A naked lunch is natural to us
We eat reality sandwiches.
But allegories are so much lettuce.
Don't hide the madness.

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

the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

Anger falling asleep at the heart

. . . who were run down by the drunken taxicabs of Absolute Reality. . .

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa!

The madman bum and angel beat in time with the absolute heart of the poem butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years