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Let the straight flower bespea...

Let the straight flower bespeak its purpose in straightness - to seek the light.
Let the crooked flower bespeak its purpose in crookedness - to seek the light.
Let the crookedness and straightness bespeak the light.

Allen Ginsberg 161 quotes

Breathe when you breathe. Walk...

Breathe when you breathe. Walk where you walk. Talk when you talk. Cry when you cry. Die when you die. Let go when you let go...

Allen Ginsberg 161 quotes

what sphinx of cement and alum...

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

Allen Ginsberg 161 quotes

I'm an old man now, and a lone...

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.

Allen Ginsberg 161 quotes

I saw the best minds of my gen...

I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

Allen Ginsberg 161 quotes

What thoughts I have of you to...

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!

Allen Ginsberg 161 quotes

I saw the best minds of my gen...

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 161 quotes

What peaches and what penumbra...

What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?

Allen Ginsberg 161 quotes

This is the one and only firma...

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.

Allen Ginsberg 161 quotes

Poetry's role is to provide sp...

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

Allen Ginsberg 161 quotes

The whole blear world of smoke...

The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn.

Allen Ginsberg 161 quotes

They [Nicaragua] haven't had e...

They [Nicaragua] haven't had elections because they are in a state of seige by the United States. They would have had elections if the U.S. had left them alone. But the U.S. has mounted a full scale war against them. So how can you ask them to behave normally?

Allen Ginsberg 161 quotes

Candor disarms paranoia....

Candor disarms paranoia.

Allen Ginsberg 161 quotes

The closet door is open for me...

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

Allen Ginsberg 161 quotes

I really would like to stop wo...

I really would like to stop working foreverЂ'never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I'm doing nowЂ'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 Ђ' maybe even a man Ђ' 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 161 quotes

Marijuana is a useful catalyst...

Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.

Allen Ginsberg 161 quotes

My books piled up before me fo...

My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.

Allen Ginsberg 161 quotes

I smoke marijuana every chance...

I smoke marijuana every chance I get.

Allen Ginsberg 161 quotes

Bob Dylan's one of the greates...

Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse.

Allen Ginsberg 161 quotes

The parts that embarrass you t...

The parts that embarrass you the most are usually the most interesting poetically, are usually the most naked of all, the rawest, the goofiest, the strangest and most eccentric and at the same time, most representative, most universal... That was something I earned from Kerouac, which was that spontaneous writing could be embarrassing... The cure for that is to write the thing down which you will not publish and which you won't show people. To write secretly... so you can actually be free to say anything you want.

Allen Ginsberg 161 quotes

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