Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel! Allen Ginsberg More Quotes by Allen Ginsberg More Quotes From Allen Ginsberg Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh. Allen Ginsberg community-living war art I smoke marijuana every chance I get. Allen Ginsberg marijuana drug war It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as hopeless - abandoning the possibility of really expressing yourself to the nations of the world. Abandoning the idea of being a prophet with honor and dignity, and abandoning the glory of poetry and just settling down in the muck of your own mindYou really have to make a resolution to write for yourself, in the sense of not writing to impress yourself, but just writing what your self is saying. Allen Ginsberg giving-up writing mean 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 writing people interesting 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 dark sleep children in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night Allen Ginsberg journey dream night I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone. Allen Ginsberg garden flower names Sanity - a trick of agreement Allen Ginsberg sanity tricks agreement I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane. Allen Ginsberg nuts want believe 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 marijuana weed years So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what he is noticing, continuous alertness to catch himself thinking or seeing, devotional attentiveness to the world he's moving through. Allen Ginsberg artist moving thinking I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd. Allen Ginsberg odyssey dream book 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 body essence soul Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash. Allen Ginsberg manipulation roles poetry There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know. Allen Ginsberg down-and should writing We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're blessed by our own seed & hairy naked accomplishment-bodies growing into mad black formal sunflowers in the sunset, spied on by our eyes under the shadow of the mad locomotive riverbank sunset Frisco hilly tincan evening sitdown vision. Allen Ginsberg sunset blessed beautiful First thoughts are the strongest. Allen Ginsberg strongest firsts So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.' Allen Ginsberg eight jail nice It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now. Allen Ginsberg heart-break broken-heart enough You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole Allen Ginsberg sadism hands people
