1. You can't win. 2. You can't break even. 3. You can't even get out of the game.
--Allen Ginsberg
Candor disarms paranoia.
--Allen Ginsberg
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
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
--Allen Ginsberg
First thought, best thought.
--Allen Ginsberg
Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
--Allen Ginsberg
I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.
--Allen Ginsberg
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
--Allen Ginsberg
I've got no axiom to grind.
--Allen Ginsberg
It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
--Allen Ginsberg
It's never too late to do nothing at all.
--Allen Ginsberg
It's true I don't want to join the Army or turn lathes in precision parts factories, I'm nearsighted and psychopathic anyway. America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
--Allen Ginsberg
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
--Allen Ginsberg
Nobody knows whether we were catalysts or invented something, or just the froth riding on a wave of its own. We were all three, I suppose.
--Allen Ginsberg
Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine, jiggling your knees blankly in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.
--Allen Ginsberg
Our heads are round so thought can change direction.
--Allen Ginsberg
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.
--Allen Ginsberg
Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
--Allen Ginsberg
The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
--Allen Ginsberg
The suffering itself is not so bad, it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.
--Allen Ginsberg
There is a very famous saying among Tibetan Buddhists: 'If the student is not better than the teacher, then the teacher is a failure.'.
--Allen Ginsberg
There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.
--Allen Ginsberg
There should be no distinction between what we write down and what we really know.
--Allen Ginsberg
To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.
--Allen Ginsberg
We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter.
--Allen Ginsberg
Well, while I'm here I'll do the work- and what's the work? To ease the pain of living.
--Allen Ginsberg
What if someone gave a war and Nobody came? Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.
--Allen Ginsberg
Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?
--Allen Ginsberg
Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
--Allen Ginsberg
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