“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

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?" by Allen Ginsberg?

Allen Ginsberg photo

Allen Ginsberg76

American poet 1926–1997

Related quotes

“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

“The waking consciousness, dear friends, is not the ego. The ego is only that portion of the waking consciousness that deals with physical manipulation.”

Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer

Source: The Seth Material (1970), p. 211

“He who binds to himself a joy
Does the wingèd life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

No. 1, He Who Binds
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792), Several Questions Answered

“One morning you wake up and are afraid you are going to live. In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

“So I’m into men now, even though they can be frightening. I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, non-Velcro-shoe-wearing man.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“I wake up wating you. I fall asleep wanting you. I watch a magnificent sunrise and can think only of sharing it with you. I glimpse a piece of amver and see your eyes. Jillian, I've caught a disease, and the fever abates only when I'm near you.”

Karen Marie Moning book To Tame a Highland Warrior

Source: To Tame a Highland Warrior

“Who has not loathed that worst, that waking hour,
When grief and consciousness assert their power;
When misery has morn's freshness, yet we fain
Would hold it as a dream, and sleep again;”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

Title poem, section VI.
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

“A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.”

Raymond E. Feist book Silverthorn

Source: Silverthorn

“But often faltering feet
Come surest to the goal;
And they who walk in darkness meet
The sunrise of the soul.”

Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat

Reliance, st. 2.

Related topics