350 Quotes by allen ginsberg

America, I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.

It isn’t enough for your heart to break because everybody’s heart is broken now.

I didn’t know the names of the flowers – now my garden is gone.

We’re all golden sunflowers inside.

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

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.

I know too much and not enough.

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.

Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what’s vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.