"Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question……" — Allen Ginsberg
"Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"]"
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118 Quotes by Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg has 118 quotes on this site.
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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry…
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I smoke marijuana every chance I get.
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First thought, best thought.
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It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.
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The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.
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Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you…
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There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.
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Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I've heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are…
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I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it…
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You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own…
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Things are symbols of themselves.
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It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving…
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