Allen Ginsberg: Trending quotes

“Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness.”

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

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

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

“My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.”

“I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.”

“Everybody's serious but me.”

“I never dreamed the sea so deep,
The earth so dark; so long my sleep,
I have become another child.
I wake to see the world go wild.”

“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.”

“The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight, the weight we carry is love.”

“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.”

“Whoever controls the media, the
images, controls the culture.”

“Not even the human
imagination satisfies
the endless emptiness of the soul.”

“I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.”

“Our heads are round so thought can change direction”

“We're all golden sunflowers inside.”

“If I had a soul I sold it
for pretty words
If I had a body I used
it up spurting my essence

Allen Ginsberg warns you
dont follow my path
to extinction”

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

“Another lover hits the universe. The circle is broken. But with death comes rebirth. And like all lovers and sad people, I am a poet.”