195 Powerful Allen Ginsberg Quotes to Inspire You
9. “What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!”
Allen Ginsberg
Admiration, Imagination, Fatigue, Poetic Journey, Connection, Surreal Imagery
14. “Don’t you see that I cannot be composed, I cannot reconcile myself, because there is no other reality but loneliness for me and before I am dragged back into isolation I will clasp and grasp and claw in fright even at you without consciousness – even I – and I am afraid that I cannot survive if I have to go on into myself.”
Allen Ginsberg Loneliness, Fear, Vulnerability, Isolation, Emotional Intensity, Existential Despair
17. “It’s too bad our problems are not solved more easily. But that is an old stupid complaint. Still the others are stupid. It is as if to save ourselves we had to save them too. That is why genius must suffer- it has to bear the burdens of the whole world. Our happiness and reality depends on the happiness and reality of others.”
Allen Ginsberg Interconnectedness, Struggle, Genius, Responsibility, Societal Critique, Philosophical Insight
23. “Many seek and never see, anyone can tell them why. O they weep and O they cry and never take until they try unless they try it in their sleep and never some until they die. I ask many, they ask me. This is a great mystery.”
Allen Ginsberg Seeking, Mystery, Perception, Questioning, Philosophical Poetry, Existential Wonder
24. “Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I’ve heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in your ignorance, in your isolation. You who have suffered, find where love hides. Give, share, lose – lest we die, unbloomed.”
Allen Ginsberg Madness, Love, Suffering, Generosity, Existential Advice, Poetic Reflection
