02UndatedI really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.Allen Ginsberg / quote ↗
03UndatedI know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly.God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.Allen Ginsberg / quote ↗
06Undatedwho journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched over Denver & brooded and loned in Denver and finally went away to find out the Time, & now Denver is lonesome for her heroes,Allen Ginsberg / quote ↗
07UndatedIf I had a soul I sold itfor pretty wordsIf I had a body I usedit up spurting my essenceAllen Ginsberg warns youdont follow my pathto extinctionAllen Ginsberg / quote ↗
08UndatedI 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.Allen Ginsberg / quote ↗
10UndatedAnother lover hits the universe. The circle is broken. But with death comes rebirth. And like all lovers and sad people, I am a poet.Allen Ginsberg / quote ↗
11Undatedone must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and othersAllen Ginsberg / quote ↗
12UndatedThe world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy!The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and handand asshole holy!Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere isholy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's anangel!Allen Ginsberg / quote ↗
14UndatedWho dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Spacethrough images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shameAllen Ginsberg / quote ↗
15UndatedJust because I like to suck cock doesn't make me any less American than Jesse Helms.Allen Ginsberg / quote ↗
16UndatedPoetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.Allen Ginsberg / quote ↗
17UndatedMan is no form no mighty molecule no justidea alone — all that Thing — I feel man tender radiance at Heart betweenbreast and belly, that physical placewhere the Self urges — delicate sensationAllen Ginsberg / quote ↗
19Undatedand he imagines carsand rides them in his dreams,so lonely growing up amongthe imaginary automobilesand dead souls of Tarrytownto createout of his own imaginationthe beauty of his wildforebears - a mythology he cannot inherit.Allen Ginsberg / quote ↗
20UndatedSo he said, 'What would you like to do? What is your desire really?' I said, 'Doctor, I don't think you're going to find this very healthy and clear, but 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.Allen Ginsberg / quote ↗
22UndatedThe weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight, the weight we carry is love. Who can deny? In dreams it touches the body, in thought constructs a miracle, in imagination anguishes till born in human-- looks out of the heart burning with purity-- for the burden of life is love, but we carry the weight wearily, and so must rest in the arms of love at last, must rest in the arms of love. No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love-- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love --cannot be bitter, cannot deny, cannot withhold if denied: the weight is too heavy --must give for no return as thought is given in solitude in all the excellence of its excess. The warm bodies shine together in the darkness, the hand moves to the center of the flesh, the skin trembles in happiness and the soul comes joyful to the eye-- yes, yes, that's what I wanted, I always wanted, I always wanted, to return to the body where I was born.Allen Ginsberg / quote ↗
23UndatedNo rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love -cannot be bitter, cannot deny,cannot withhold if denied: the weight is too heavyAllen Ginsberg / quote ↗
24UndatedEvery American wants MORE MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact information at the expense of what really counts as more: feeling, good feeling, sex feeling, tenderness feeling, mutual feeling. You own twice as much rug if you're twice as aware of the rug.Allen Ginsberg / quote ↗
