Life Quotes by Allen Ginsberg

8 Life quotes by Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg’s eight concise lines echo the Beat spirit, turning ordinary moments into poetic bursts of insight and raw emotion.

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“with the absolute heart of the poem of life butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years.”

Allen Ginsberg

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

Allen Ginsberg

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I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do…

Allen Ginsberg

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“I would rather go mad, gone down the dark road to Mexico, heroin dripping in my veins, eyes and ears full of…

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Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.

Allen Ginsberg

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Let go of the spirit of the departed, and continue the celebration of your own life.

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Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret…

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I have been wrathful all my life, angry against my father and all others. My wrath must end. All my images now…

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“Central Intelligence cutting Meo opium fields! China Lobby copping poppies in Burma! How long this Addict government support our oil-burner matter-habit”

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