Allen Ginsberg Howl Quotes & Sayings

My voice falls into Southern drawl when I am tired, drunk, or in trouble. Too often, my accent is attacked by all three of these realities. — Jennifer Harrison

With dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and cock and endless balls — Allen Ginsberg

Post a picture of you or of somebody and look... the days have been counted. — Deyth Banger

It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts. — John Updike

Be rather like a strong, big old tree, firmly anchored in your soil, deeply rooted, knowing yourself, knowing what you are anchored into, which is Source and Truth, and no currents from the outside world, no matter how strong, have any sway over you. — Maha Devi Li Ra La

I shall remain on Mars and read a book. — Ray Bradbury

Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul! — Allen Ginsberg

I'm with you in Rockland
where you scream in a straightjacket that you're losing the game of the actual pingpong of the abyss — Allen Ginsberg

Most of us remember Nat King Cole as a vocalist. His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely identified with such familiar ballads as 'Stardust' and 'The Christmas Song' that it's hard to imagine anyone else performing them. — Terry Teachout

And then Jo met Professor Bhaer, so we had to watch that bit. And then Beth died. So I guess the March sisters were on their own jagged graph too. — Sophie Kinsella

We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels. — William Carlos Williams

Bad choices or good, if you never take chances, someone else will build your life for you. — Ellen Hopkins

I don't care much about the money at all. Frankly, if I get the chance to kiss someone in a movie, they wouldn't need to pay me at all. — Orlando Bloom

I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee' ... I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee. — Robert Rauschenberg

Truth is so good a thing that falsehood can not afford to be without it. — Ambrose Bierce

The entire morality of the world could be summarized in the words, do as others do. — Multatuli

By any reasonable standard (i.e. he didn't cheat), Aaron is one of the greatest sluggers in baseball history - and there shouldn't even be a debate about who is baseball's true all-time home run champion (again, no cheating). — Tucker Elliot

The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident ... ', the US will be rather pissed off — Eric Idle

What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination — Allen Ginsberg

They broke their backs lifting Moloch to heaven! — Allen Ginsberg

In my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night — Allen Ginsberg

Who dreamt
and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space
through images juxtaposed,
and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images
and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun
and dash of consciousness together
jumping with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus
to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human
prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame — Allen Ginsberg