Allen Ginsberg Short Quotes

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America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

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America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

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O mother
what have I left out
O mother
what have I forgotten

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I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.

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

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Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?

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America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.

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Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!

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Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?

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None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

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

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

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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

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The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.

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1. You can't win.
2. You can't break even.
3. You can't even get out of the game.

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

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It all begins with fucking around and intuition and without any idea of what you're doing.

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Who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

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I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.

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The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

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

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What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination

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The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.

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Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!

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

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What if someone gave a war & Nobody came?
Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.

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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

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

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

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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.

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