350 Quotes by allen ginsberg

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter.

I hadn’t thought about what any army trains for. It merely maintains itself here for no exterior purpose.

Why are you afraid to submit to the annihilation of such stupid meaningless unreal knowledge. This is the abyss. Everything is green, love, without the logical fantastic equivocations that we invent so that we won’t actually have to face each other.

Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection – with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.

You can own an elephant or a bank or power thereof but if there’s no personal breast bliss all you own is a lot of dead atoms and ideas.

Sanity – a trick of agreement.

America will be refused eternity by her own mad son the bomb!

The most important thing about dreams is the existence in them of magical emotions, to which waking consciousness is not ordinarily sentient. Awe of vast constructions; familiar eternal halls of buildings; sexual intensity in rapport; deathly music; grief awakenings, perfected lodgings.

No point writing when the spirit doth not lead.