26 ordspråk av Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
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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 in your brain.
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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
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Poets are Damned ... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
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That's it. And you did, really, in the 1990s. You saw a lot of great minds just get ... fucked.
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The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
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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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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
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Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
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