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 They [Nicaragua] haven't had elections because they are in a state of seige by the United States. They would have had elections if the U.S. had left them alone. But the U.S. has mounted a full scale war against them. So how can you ask them to behave normally? Allen Ginsberg nicaragua united-states war Things are symbols of themselves. Allen Ginsberg symbols Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then! Allen Ginsberg old-things sunflower soul Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God! Allen Ginsberg thank-god America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel. Allen Ginsberg Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa! Allen Ginsberg Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine, jiggling your knees blankly in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain. Allen Ginsberg You see those guys wearing baggy pants, descendants of the parachute pants, wearing an odd, weird Frankenstein haircut. It all comes out of Peter Lorre. Allen Ginsberg haircut weird see you I would say that Times Square was the central hangout for Burroughs, Kerouac, and myself from about 1945 to 1948. Allen Ginsberg say about myself times-square I have been wrathful all my life, angry against my father and all others. My wrath must end. All my images now are of heaven. Allen Ginsberg my-life angry life father I was putting on a stiff upper lip and trying to fulfill the obligations I thought were demanded of me, taking over my father's role of taking care of my mother... and having to be the recipient of her confessions and emotions but of a delusional nature. Allen Ginsberg me nature mother father I am 23, the year of the iron birthday, the gate of darkness. I am ill. Allen Ginsberg i-am year darkness birthday Black musicians were imitating speech cadences, and Kerouac was imitating the black musicians' breath cadences on their horns and brought it back to speech. It always was speech rhythms or cadences as far as the ear that Kerouac was developing. All passed through black music. Allen Ginsberg musicians back black music I recommend for any basic course on the Beat Generation to familiarize yourself with 'The Idiot,' Prince Myshkin. He was Dostoyevsky's idea of the most beautiful human being he could imagine, the creation of a saint in literature. Allen Ginsberg generation yourself idiot beautiful The motif of Beat Generation is basically misunderstood, a misinterpreted area. There's this superimposition of the idea of a social rebellion, which was the communist interpretation through Lawrence Lipton. Allen Ginsberg beat generation through rebellion
