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Own Quotes by Allen Ginsberg
- 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 making a strained…
- It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as hopeless - abandoning…
- Every American wants MORE & MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate…
- Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.
- No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for…
- I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an…
- My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
- To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.
- one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment,…
- The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene
- To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov