Allen Ginsberg Quotes

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  None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Beautiful, Beautiful Things

  Allen Ginsberg, Bill Morgan (2008). “The Letters of Allen Ginsberg”, p.25, Da Capo Press

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• Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Allen Ginsberg

  Late

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• Our heads are round so thought can change direction

  Allen Ginsberg

  Learning, Science, Rounds

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• I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Hurt, Believe, Feelings

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

  Allen Ginsberg

  Writing, Voice, Gains

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  I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Thinking, Views, Point Of View

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• You are what you think about all day.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Inspirational, Positive Thinking, Inspiration And Motivation

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• Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Media, Art And Culture, Literature

  "Brain Power: Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills". Book by Karl Albrecht, p. 6, 1979.

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• There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Fiction, Science Fiction

  Quoted in Christopher Butler, After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde (1980)

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

  Allen Ginsberg

  Sunflower, Way, Turns

  Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde (1984). “On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg”, p.100, University of Michigan Press

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  Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Writing, Listening, Care

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• To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Writing, Voice, Design

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• The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Pain, Real, Suffering

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• Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Fighting, Opportunity, Night

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• When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Sacred

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

  Allen Ginsberg

  Decay, Indecision

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• The censorship of language is the censorship of consciousness.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Language, Censorship, Consciousness

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• I know too much and not enough

  Allen Ginsberg

  Too Much, Enough, Knows

  Allen Ginsberg (2013). “Collected Poems 1947-1997”, p.317, Penguin UK

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• The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found - the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Doe, World, Graphic Design

  "Poems". Book by C. F. Main, p. 3, 1973.

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• Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Lying, Truth Is, Bigs

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• First thought, best thought.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Crafts, Firsts

  Allen Ginsberg (2015). “The Essential Ginsberg”, p.7, HarperCollins

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• What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?

  Allen Ginsberg

  War, What If, Ifs

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• we're all golden sunflowers inside.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Happiness, Contentment, Sunflower

  Allen Ginsberg (2013). “Collected Poems 1947-1997”, p.196, Penguin UK

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• I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Insanity, Mind, Naked

  "Howl" l. 1 (1956)

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