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 want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do. Allen Ginsberg saint real want he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it Allen Ginsberg died prove-it hands 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 fighting opportunity night A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness. Allen Ginsberg naked lunch reality I learned a world from each / one whom I loved Allen Ginsberg world Others can measure their visions by what we see. Allen Ginsberg awe seeing vision If you want to make order, put your own heart in order, and, having put one's heart in order, one can regulate the family order. Allen Ginsberg want heart order I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas / but not afraid / to speak my lonesomeness in a car, / because not only my lonesomeness / it's Ours, all over America, / O tender fellows --/ & spoken lonesomeness is Prophecy / in the moon 100 years ago or in / the middle of Kansas now. Allen Ginsberg moon men years The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse. Allen Ginsberg mental-illness soul depression Man’s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells Allen Ginsberg whales cells men The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded. Allen Ginsberg real america You too must seek the sun. Allen Ginsberg sun Everybody's serious but me. Allen Ginsberg serious We are all exposed to the flash bulb of death. Allen Ginsberg bulbs exposed flash My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed. Allen Ginsberg bed genius literature [William Butler] Yeats has the phrase Hodos Chameliontos, chameleon-like, in that you don't know where the beginning or the middle or the end is, so it's an unrelieved hallucination, because you don't know where you're coming in and you don't know where you're going out. It ends, you're going into the hallucination, or maybe coming out of it, I don't know. Allen Ginsberg hallucinations going-out phrases Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels. Allen Ginsberg poet angel eye 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. And I’d like to keep living with someone — maybe even a man — and explore relationships that way. And cultivate my perceptions, cultivate the visionary thing in me. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence. Allen Ginsberg writing men museums Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie. Allen Ginsberg truth-is bigs lying I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts. Allen Ginsberg skulls talking thinking