"Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower……" — Allen Ginsberg
"Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!"
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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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It's a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal.
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I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you…
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Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused…
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The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to…
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Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled…
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I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from…
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It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not…
— Michael Palin
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I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that…
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My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals…
— Hilda Solis
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I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were…
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Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his…
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War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried…
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