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“What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?”

Allen Ginsberg

Source: The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“I learned a world from each / one whom I loved”

Allen Ginsberg

“Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?”

Allen Ginsberg

Source: The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.”

Allen Ginsberg book Howl and Other Poems

Source: Howl and Other Poems

“Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!”

Allen Ginsberg book Howl and Other Poems

Source: Howl and Other Poems

“Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and the true art.”

Allen Ginsberg

“I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.”

Allen Ginsberg book Howl and Other Poems

Source: Howl and Other Poems

“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”

Allen Ginsberg book Howl and Other Poems

Source: Howl and Other Poems

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”

Allen Ginsberg book Howl

Howl (1956)

“Sanity - a trick of agreement”

Allen Ginsberg

“All these books are published in Heaven.”

Allen Ginsberg book Howl and Other Poems

Source: Howl and Other Poems

“The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene”

Allen Ginsberg

Source: The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly.
God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.”

Allen Ginsberg

Source: Death and Fame: Last Poems, 1993-1997

“Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!”

Allen Ginsberg book Howl and Other Poems

Source: Howl and Other Poems

“You too must seek the sun…”

Allen Ginsberg book Howl and Other Poems

Source: Howl and Other Poems

“I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.”

Allen Ginsberg book Howl and Other Poems

Source: Howl and Other Poems

“The universe is mad, slightly mad.”

Allen Ginsberg book Reality Sandwiches

Source: Reality Sandwiches

“he threw up his hands
and wrote the Universe dont exist
and died to prove it”

Allen Ginsberg

Source: The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971