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 we're all golden sunflowers inside. Allen Ginsberg sunflower contentment happiness That's what the shaman said. He didn't know what he was up against. He didn't expect the strength and weight and evil intensity of this spirit, this "entity," as he called it. The same way the priest in an exorcism has to take on the spirit. Allen Ginsberg weight evil way My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves. Allen Ginsberg space waiting book When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain. Allen Ginsberg addiction brain snow What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons? Allen Ginsberg husband baby night This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven. Allen Ginsberg other-worlds circles heaven No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm. Allen Ginsberg snakes flower yellow The actual materials are important. A book at the nightstand is important - a light you can get at - or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's latern. Allen Ginsberg light writing book Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph Allen Ginsberg eye reading winter Mind is shapely, Art is shapely. Allen Ginsberg art-is mind art Subject is known by what she sees. Allen Ginsberg awe subjects vision I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. Allen Ginsberg bows want people Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control. Allen Ginsberg real wisdom life Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years. Allen Ginsberg bombshells america years What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations! Allen Ginsberg moon dream men The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the Allen Ginsberg jehovah middle civilization Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit! Allen Ginsberg bullshit dream rivers Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church. Allen Ginsberg kitsch catholic church I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel? Allen Ginsberg asking-questions pork angel It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population. Allen Ginsberg population
