I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. Allen Ginsberg More Quotes by Allen Ginsberg More Quotes From Allen Ginsberg I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince other people to do anything. The really interesting think is the struggle with the self, and the relation with the self, and there is no end to the improvement that can be done there, the discoveries that can be made. Allen Ginsberg struggle discovery thinking War is good business Invest your son Allen Ginsberg your-son war son 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 rain snow america 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 alive literature facts We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter Allen Ginsberg howl great-writers typewriters It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American. The ugly American at his ugly worst. That's exactly what it is. Allen Ginsberg tycoons ugly evil America, why are your libraries full of tears? Allen Ginsberg library tears america The combination of drugs, homosexuality, some good prose recited on screen. . . . In the sweat lodge ceremony we went through, did you get any glimpse of the Ugly Spirit, what that was historically or biographically? Allen Ginsberg sweat glimpse drug Scientist alone is true poet. Allen Ginsberg scientist poet What came is gone forever every time Allen Ginsberg gone forever Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and the true art. Allen Ginsberg expression self art I know too much and not enough Allen Ginsberg too-much enough knows You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden. Allen Ginsberg paris wonderful past The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open. Allen Ginsberg closets left doors I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it is one difference. In less romantic and visionary terms, I am a Jew, (with powers of introspection and eclecticism attendant, perhaps.) But I am alien to your natural grace, to the spirit which you would know as a participator in America. Allen Ginsberg differences grace america The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene Allen Ginsberg addiction suicide hero 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 car waiting past 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 hipster mind night I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences, in sections of two, three or four lines each. Allen Ginsberg notebook two thinking Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa! Allen Ginsberg democracies-have democracy political
