Quotes from Allen Ginsberg

No rest without love, No sleep without dreams of love - be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines the final wish is love.

Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!

What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?

America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.

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

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven.

Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!

Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame

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

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

America I've given you all and now I'm nothing... I can't stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.

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.

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

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

All these books are published in Heaven.

Every American wants MORE MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact information at the expense of what really counts as more: feeling, good feeling, sex feeling, tenderness feeling, mutual feeling. You own twice as much rug if you're twice as aware of the rug.

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

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

You too must seek the sun...

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

Sanity - a trick of agreement

He saw that I was shy, and at the time I was still scared of feeling with another person, so he put his arm around me and pulled me and put my head on his breast and gave me love actually.

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