"What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping……" — Allen Ginsberg
"What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?"
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Allen Ginsberg
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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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More Aisles Quotes
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Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?
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And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths…
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There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must…
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The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the…
— David Foster Wallace
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Hell came right along with God, hand in hand. The stink of sulfur swirled in the air of the church,…
— Harry Crews
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There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad…
— Walt Whitman
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By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV…
— Adora Svitak
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The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hey, look at this guy Kenny G. with his thing, walking up and down the aisles of the concert hall…
— Jerome Richardson
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The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes…
— Stacey Levine
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These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and…
— Al Jarreau
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I absolutely fell in love with David Cristofanos writing. THE GIRL SHE USED TO BE is that rare novel--its the…
— Johanna Edwards
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