350 Quotes by allen ginsberg

Let go of the spirit of the departed, and continue the celebration of your own life.

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

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

I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it is one difference. In less romantic and visionary terms, I am a Jew, (with powers of introspection and eclecticism attendant, perhaps.) But I am alien to your natural grace, to the spirit which you would know as a participator in America.

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.

I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?

You are what you think about all day.

Who’ll come lie down in the dark with me Belly to belly and knee to knee Who’ll look into my hooded eye Who’ll lie down under my darkened thigh?

A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.