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Allen Ginsberg Quotes

Total quotes: 16
“None of us understand what we’re doing but we do beautiful things anyway.”
— Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
Tagged: doing things, Keep Going, Moving Forward, Understanding Yourself, Life, Experiences
“I think about you all the time, and have no one to talk to as only we can talk.”
— Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
Tagged: Thoughts, Love, Thinking
“I speak of love that comes to mind: the moon is faithful...”
— Allen Ginsberg, Collected Poems 1947-1997
Tagged: Love, talking about love, speaking about love, poem, Poetry
“I have no other possessions of value but my soul.”
— Allen Ginsberg, The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems
Tagged: Self-importance, Soul, Possession, Valuable
“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”
— Allen Ginsberg, The Mystery Of The Inner Moonlight
Tagged: Madness, Self-Acceptance, Love, Passion, Desire, Dream
“Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?”
— Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971
Tagged: Consciousness
“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
— Allen Ginsberg, The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems
Tagged: Failure, Control
“Do you love me?
No, I’m an awkward jerk that’s been around your neck for
so long you got used to it & kinda fond.”
— Allen Ginsberg, Collected Poems 1947-1997
Tagged: Love, Questions, Doubt, Self-deprecation
“I can’t stand my own mind.”
— Allen Ginsberg, America
Tagged: expression, Mind Control, Thought & Will, Uncontrollable Thoughts
“Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!”
— Allen Ginsberg, 24 INCREDIBLE ALLEN GINSBERG QUOTES
Tagged: Democracy, Politics
“I miss you like a home.”
— Allen Ginsberg, My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries
Tagged: How To Say I Love You
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”
— Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems
Tagged: Mind, Generations, Fix
“I know too much and not enough.”
— Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish
Tagged: Knowledge
“We're all golden sunflowers inside.’”
— Allen Ginsberg, The New Anthology of American Poetry: Postmodernisms 1950-Present
Tagged: Sunflower, Sun, Our Beauty, Self-Worth, Value, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“…we can lie on the bed and imagine
ourselves away…”
— Allen Ginsberg, Collected Poems 1947-1997
Tagged: In love, Lovers, Intimacy, Couples, Romantic
“I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends. And I’d like to keep living with someone — maybe even a man — and explore relationships that way. And cultivate my perceptions, cultivate the visionary thing in me. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence.”
— Allen Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg and his Psychiatrist
Tagged: Work, Leisure, Writing, Poetry, Explore, Cultivate What You Love, hermit, Existence
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