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Allen Ginsberg has 118 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 does.
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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 catch cold…
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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 fortunate in…
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I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it is one…
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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 voice, you're…
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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 up as…
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For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image of sensible…
— Clement of Alexandria
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All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel it…
— Harold Urey
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Creation is more than an accident of dead matter. It's a romance. It has purpose. It sings of the Living God. It…
— Unknown Author
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It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been…
— William S. Burroughs
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The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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Every American wants MORE & MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America…
— Allen Ginsberg
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It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish…
— Max Born
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A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain,
— Verlyn Klinkenborg
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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of…
— Lewis Mumford
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