We love to be hurt and we love to have our unhealing wounds opened and reopened again: we sit staring in the mirror of art, fascinated by our own deformities. Allen Ginsberg More Quotes by Allen Ginsberg More Quotes From Allen Ginsberg Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel! Allen Ginsberg everyday angel eternity What if someone gave a war and Nobody came? Allen Ginsberg what-if ifs war Candor disarms paranoia. Allen Ginsberg candor paranoia one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others Allen Ginsberg recognition self writing No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love -cannot be bitter, cannot deny, cannot withhold if denied: the weight is too heavy Allen Ginsberg angel dream sleep Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. Allen Ginsberg party time lying Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow. Allen Ginsberg wells pain ease Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns? Allen Ginsberg sunflower turns way I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. Allen Ginsberg naked mind insanity Let the straight flower bespeak its purpose in straightness - to seek the light. Allen Ginsberg light flower purpose The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found - the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it. Allen Ginsberg graphic-design doe world Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future. Allen Ginsberg perception self thinking America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing. Allen Ginsberg wonder-years literature america The censorship of language is the censorship of consciousness. Allen Ginsberg censorship consciousness language Now I have enough money to travel wherever I want, but I haven't got the health. Allen Ginsberg enough havens want When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred. Allen Ginsberg sacred Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. Allen Ginsberg philosophy people art Let go of the spirit of the departed, and continue the celebration of your own life. Allen Ginsberg departed spirit letting-go Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that. Allen Ginsberg stars moon science Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation. Allen Ginsberg generations quality important
