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The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain. — Allen Ginsberg

Electric Networks spread fear of murder on the streets — Allen Ginsberg

I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do. — Allen Ginsberg

My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg. — Patti Smith

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second. — Ken Kesey

What Patriot wrote that shit? — Allen Ginsberg

Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that. — Allen Ginsberg

The Package is the Product, onomatopoeticized — Allen Ginsberg

The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid. — Allen Ginsberg

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

You too must seek the sun... — Allen Ginsberg

I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision. — Allen Ginsberg

We the People - shelling the Vietcong — Allen Ginsberg

I write poetry because I want to be alone and want to talk to people. — Allen Ginsberg

I broadcast thru Time — Allen Ginsberg

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys. — Harvey Pekar

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

First word ... best word. — Allen Ginsberg

Sanity - a trick of agreement — Allen Ginsberg

We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels. — William Carlos Williams

And the Children of the Warmakers're exempt from fighting their parents' war — Allen Ginsberg

It's never to late to do nothing at all. — Allen Ginsberg

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

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

Mind is shapely, Art is shapely. — Allen Ginsberg

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

When Violence floods the State from above, flowery land razed for robot proliferation — Allen Ginsberg

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. — Allen Ginsberg

We're all golden sunflowers inside. — Allen Ginsberg

Thus, as the Buddha said to a lady who offered him a curse,the gift is returned to the giver when it is not accepted — Allen Ginsberg

more diamonds and pearls of electricity — Allen Ginsberg

First thought, best thought. — Allen Ginsberg

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness. — Allen Ginsberg

Scientist alone is true poet. — Allen Ginsberg

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

Just because I like to suck cock doesn't make me any less American than Jesse Helms. — Allen Ginsberg

First thoughts are the strongest. — Allen Ginsberg

America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set.
America is this correct? — Allen Ginsberg

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

Not even the human
imagination satisfies
the endless emptiness of the soul. — Allen Ginsberg

Television concentrates its blue flicker of death in the frontal lobe — Allen Ginsberg

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive. — Allen Ginsberg

You can't photograph everything. — Allen Ginsberg

I have no other possessions of value but my soul. — Allen Ginsberg

Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg. — Peter Fonda

Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain. — Allen Ginsberg

Who scribbled all night rocking and rolling over lofty incantations which in the yellow morning were stanzas of gibberish. — Allen Ginsberg

I've listened to and know Allen Ginsberg music and met him a couple of times, but I don't have any strong statements to make. — William S. Burroughs

...my man world will blow up — Allen Ginsberg

Robots pencil prescriptions for acid gas sunsets — Allen Ginsberg

Soul identical to each to each ... look in my eyes and speak to yourself, that makes me
everybody's lover — Allen Ginsberg

senseless, senseless coughs of emotion — Allen Ginsberg

enraptured in hypnotic war — Allen Ginsberg

I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel? — Allen Ginsberg

Washing terror-waves round earth-globe back to suburb TV home night kitchens — Allen Ginsberg

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now. — Allen Ginsberg

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

The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded. — Allen Ginsberg

Trees hang their branches — Allen Ginsberg

I'm with you in Rockland, where we are great writers on this same dreadful typewriter. — Allen Ginsberg

False emotions broadcast thru the Land — Allen Ginsberg

Whole intellects disgorged in total recall for seven days and nights with brilliant eyes, meat for the Synagogue cast on the pavement, — Allen Ginsberg

Subject is known by what she sees. — Allen Ginsberg

... who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy, ... — Allen Ginsberg

I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. — Allen Ginsberg

War is good business Invest your son — Allen Ginsberg

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. — Allen Ginsberg

Things are symbols of themselves. — Allen Ginsberg

Banks burn, boys die bullet-eyed, mothers scream realization the vast tonnage of napalm — Allen Ginsberg

Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on. — Allen Ginsberg

Artificial trees, robot sofas,
Ignorant cars-
One Way Street to Heaven — Allen Ginsberg

I eat a catfish sandwich
with onions and red sauce
20c. (Havana 1953) — Allen Ginsberg

When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred. — Allen Ginsberg

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church. — Allen Ginsberg

The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight,the weight we carry is love. — Allen Ginsberg

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

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

The universe is mad, slightly mad. — Allen Ginsberg

O victory forget you're underwear we're free. — Allen Ginsberg

If we don't show anyone, we're free to write anything. — Allen Ginsberg

Another 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

Our means in America to control the money munching war machine, bright lit industry — Allen Ginsberg

Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow. — Allen Ginsberg

Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years. — Allen Ginsberg

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane. — Allen Ginsberg

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

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard. — Allen Ginsberg

All Revolution and Consumption, Manufacture and Communication — Allen Ginsberg

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

Candor disarms paranoia. — Allen Ginsberg

Absolutes are Coercion.
Change is absolute. — Allen Ginsberg

You can own an elephant or a bank or power thereof but if there's no personal breast bliss all you own is a lot of dead atoms and ideas. — Allen Ginsberg

I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric. — Allen Ginsberg

It occurs to me that I am America.
I am talking to myself again. — Allen Ginsberg

A communist conspiracy among the youth ... speakers on campuses/trained to condition idealistic brains — Allen Ginsberg

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

Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie. — Allen Ginsberg

The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it's a relief to realize you can let go. — Allen Ginsberg

America when will we end the human war?
Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb — Allen Ginsberg

If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction — Allen Ginsberg