Allen Ginsberg Quotes
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found-the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.
Quotes to Explore
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I get homesick.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?
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If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
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The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.
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I should curl up in a ball and cry. Instead i think about everything in the whole entire world that makes me angry - There is a lot, oh, there is a lot - and I start singing Justin Bieber at the top of my lungs.
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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. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found-the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.
