An unnoticed corner of the world suddenly becomes noticed, and when you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it becomes sacred.… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan's one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete.… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Every American wants MORE & MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked... who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“I'm with you in Rockland in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across America in tears to the door… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers!” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I was putting on a stiff upper lip and trying to fulfill the obligations I thought were demanded of me, taking over my father's… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
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… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“with my fucking suave manners and knowitall, eyes, and mind full of fantasy - the Me! that horror that keeps me conscious, in this… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it's a relief to realize you… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Central Intelligence cutting Meo opium fields! China Lobby copping poppies in Burma! How long this Addict government support our oil-burner matter-habit” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
