350 Quotes by allen ginsberg

Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?

It's never to late to do nothing at all.

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!

I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

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

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.

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

Things are symbols of themselves.

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.