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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

There's a guy, Anatole Broyard, of the N. Y. Times Book Review, who's still chasing Kerouac's corpse with a stiletto. — 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

Forty million Americans smoked marijuana; the only ones who didn't like it were Judge Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton. — Jay Leno

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

Ginsberg, Clifton, Sedgwick - are — Maggie Nelson

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

Well, while I'm here I'll do the work - and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow. — 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

Sanity - a trick of agreement — Allen Ginsberg

I still had to correct Allen Ginsberg at times when he called women girls. I'd say. Allen please, it's not politically correct. — Anne Waldman

Never apologize for saying what/how you feel. Cuz' that's like saying, "Sorry for being real". — Scott 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

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

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

Focus isn't about hammering one nail all our lives.
It's about hammering lots of nails, one way, all our lives. — Scott Ginsberg

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

Mind is shapely, Art is shapely. — 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

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

more diamonds and pearls of electricity — Allen Ginsberg

Candor disarms paranoia. — Allen Ginsberg

First thought, best thought. — Allen Ginsberg

It would almost be easier to have woken up and found that everything about her life was a lie, instead of just this one awful truth. — Debra 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

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

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

(even though, technically, Karanuk's previous publisher was supposed to get an exclusive — Debra Ginsberg

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

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

Empire State's orange shoulders lifted above the Hell — Allen Ginsberg

It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population. — Allen Ginsberg

To get on screen with the Talking Asshole, quite a feat. And it's certainly going to be a cult film that people will be seeing. — Allen Ginsberg

Happiness exists I feel it.
I cried for my soul, I cried for the world's soul.
The world has a beautiful soul. — Allen Ginsberg

Everybody's serious but me. — Allen Ginsberg

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

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady. — Thom Gunn

Now the Great Fear's rolled round the world and washes over Newspaper Grey air — Allen Ginsberg

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

Man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change. — Scott Ginsberg

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One never really knew what went on inside the hearts of other people, even those hearts you thought you knew as well as your own. — Debra 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

Things are symbols of themselves. — Allen Ginsberg

At what point do you no longer need other people to support the decisions you've made about your own reality? — Scott Ginsberg