350 Quotes by allen ginsberg

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’m with you in Rockland, where we are great writers on this same dreadful typewriter.

The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred.

Money! Money! Money! shrieking mad celestial money of illusion! Money made of nothing, starvation, suicide! Money of failure! Money of death! Money against Eternity! and eternity’s strong mills grind out vast paper of Illusion!

It’s too bad our problems are not solved more easily. But that is an old stupid complaint. Still the others are stupid. It is as if to save ourselves we had to save them too. That is why genius must suffer- it has to bear the burdens of the whole world. Our happiness and reality depends on the happiness and reality of others.

You can’t escape the past in Paris, and yet what’s so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn’t seem to burden.

The poetry is like a rhythmic articulation of feeling.” – Allen Ginsberg.

I shudder, I see the love, I’m doomed, my heart melts again – can’t stand not to be in love, can’t stand not to be melting with real tenderness, childlike need sweetnesses, that’s what’s wrong with me.

What came is gone forever every time.