26 ordspråk av Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg
...who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war,
who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull,
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[This act, which became the basis for] Pull My Daisy, ... I mean that was the hippest thing I've seen you do tonight.
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[With help from the American Civil Liberties Union, they were acquitted after a highly publicized trial, and the judge's ruling established a legal standard for publishing controversial books of] redeeming social importance. ... presents a picture of a nightmare world.
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America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather Boa!
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Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
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Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
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Howl and Other Poems
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I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... And think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries... Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences ...
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I heard 'Hard Rain' and wept,
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dyn
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
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I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs -- when I was 17 -- that I realized I was talking through an empty skull, ... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.
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I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
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