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Allen Ginsberg Quotes | Quotes said by Allen Ginsberg

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #1

    ...robots pencil prescriptions for acid gas sunsets


  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #2

    ..Moloch who entered my soul early. Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a body. Moloch who frightened me out of my natural ecstasy. Moloch whom I abandon. Wake up in Moloch.. Light streaming out of the sky.

    Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! Invisible suburbs! Skeleton treasuries! Blind capitals! Demonic industries! Spectral nations! Invincible madhouses! Granite cocks! Monstrous bombs!

    They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven.. Pavements, trees, radios, tons. Lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us.

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #3

    America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #4

    America, the plum blossoms are falling.

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #5

    and he imagines cars
    and rides them in his dreams,

    so lonely growing up among
    the imaginary automobiles
    and dead souls of Tarrytown

    to create
    out of his own imagination
    the beauty of his wild
    forebears - a mythology
    he cannot inherit.

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #6

    Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #7

    Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #8

    Every American wants MORE MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact information at the expense of what really counts as more: feeling, good feeling, sex feeling, tenderness feeling, mutual feeling. You own twice as much rug if you're twice as aware of the rug.

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #9

    Everybody's serious but me.

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #10

    Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #11

    Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!
    Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!
    The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy!
    The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand
    and asshole holy!
    Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is
    holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an
    angel!
    The bum's as holy as the seraphim! the madman is
    holy as you my soul are holy!
    The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is
    holy the hearers are holy the ecstasy is holy!
    Holy Peter holy Allen holy Solomon holy Lucien holy
    Kerouac holy Huncke holy Burroughs holy Cas-
    sady holy the unknown buggered and suffering
    beggars holy the hideous human angels!
    Holy my mother in the insane asylum! Holy the cocks
    of the grandfathers of Kansas!
    Holy the groaning saxophone! Holy the bop
    apocalypse! Holy the jazzbands marijuana
    hipsters peace & junk & drums!
    Holy the solitudes of skyscrapers and pavements! Holy
    the cafeterias filled with the millions! Holy the
    mysterious rivers of tears under the streets!
    Holy the lone juggernaut! Holy the vast lamb of the
    middle class! Holy the crazy shepherds of rebell-
    ion! Who digs Los Angeles IS Los Angeles!
    Holy New York Holy San Francisco Holy Peoria &
    Seattle Holy Paris Holy Tangiers Holy Moscow
    Holy Istanbul!
    Holy time in eternity holy eternity in time holy the
    clocks in space holy the fourth dimension holy
    the fifth International holy the Angel in Moloch!
    Holy the sea holy the desert holy the railroad holy the
    locomotive holy the visions holy the hallucina-
    tions holy the miracles holy the eyeball holy the
    abyss!
    Holy forgiveness! mercy! charity! faith! Holy! Ours!
    bodies! suffering! magnanimity!
    Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent
    kindness of the soul!

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #12

    I have no other possessions of value but my soul.

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #13

    I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly.
    God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #14

    I never dreamed the sea so deep,
    The earth so dark; so long my sleep,
    I have become another child.
    I wake to see the world go wild.

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #15

    I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #16

    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 Quote #17

    I would rather go mad, gone down the dark road to Mexico, heroin dripping in my veins,
    eyes and ears full of marijuana,
    eating the god Peyote on the floor of a mudhut on the border
    or laying in a hotel room over the body of some suffering man or woman;
    rather jar my body down the road, crying by a diner in the Western sun;
    rather crawl on my naked belly over the tincans of Cincinnati;
    rather drag a rotten railroad tie to a Golgotha in the Rockies;
    rather, crowned with thorns in Galveston, nailed hand and foot in Los Angeles, raised up to die in Denver,
    pierced in the side in Chicago, perished and tombed in New Orleans and resurrected in 1958 somewhere on Garret Mountain,
    come down roaring in a blaze of hot cars and garbage,
    streetcorner Evangel in front of City I-Tall, surrounded by statues of agonized lions,
    with a mouthful of shit, and the hair rising on my scalp,
    screaming and dancing in praise of Eternity annihilating the sidewalk, annihilating reality,
    screaming and dancing against the orchestra in the destructible ballroom of the world,
    blood streaming from my belly and shoulders
    flooding the city with its hideous ecstasy, rolling over the pavements and highways
    by the bayoux and forests and derricks leaving my flesh and my bones hanging on the trees.

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #18

    If I had a soul I sold it
    for pretty words
    If I had a body I used
    it up spurting my essence

    Allen Ginsberg warns you
    dont follow my path
    to extinction

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #19

    in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #20

    Just because I like to suck cock doesn't make me any less American than Jesse Helms.

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #21

    Millions of fathers in rain
    Millions of mothers in pain
    Millions of brothers in woe
    Millions of sisters nowhere to go

    Millions of daughters walk in the mud
    Millions of children wash in the flood
    A million girls vomit and groan
    Millions of families hopeless alone

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #22

    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 Quote #23

    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 Quote #24

    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 Quote #25

    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 Quote #26

    Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #27

    So he said, 'What would you like to do? What is your desire really?' I said, 'Doctor, I don't think you're going to find this very healthy and clear, but 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.

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #28

    Sunflower poised against the sunset, crackly bleak and dusty with the smut and smog and smoke of olden locomotives in its eye—
    corolla of bleary spikes pushed down and broken like a battered crown, seeds fallen out of its face, soon-to-be-toothless mouth of sunny air, sunrays obliterated on its hairy head like a dried wire spiderweb,
    leaves stuck out like arms out of the stem, gestures from the sawdust root, broke pieces of plaster fallen out of the black twigs, a dead fly in its ear

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #29

    Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!

  • Allen Ginsberg Quote #30

    The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

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