Allen Ginzberg Quotes & Sayings

It is completely acceptable to be tired because it means you're working hard. But it's not acceptable to be stressed because that means things are going wrong or your head is broken. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Poems are crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality. — Pierre Reverdy

Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown. — J.M. Barrie

I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social agitation and discussion, society can regulate and form itself in a more or less haphazard and chance way. But through education society can formulate its own purposes, can organize its own means and resources, and thus shape itself with definiteness and economy in the direction in which it wishes to move. — John Dewey

The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in Latin America, such as in Cuba - failed for the most part, a failure which was completely clear by the end of the century. — Stephane Hessel

We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another. — Patti Smith

I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last. — William Carey

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it. — Hans-Georg Gadamer

Life is all about having a good time. — Miley Cyrus

No one pointed out to Ginzberg that the quick and only way to a peace beyond 'desire,anger,grasping,craving' is to cut your throat; that anyone who has no appetite for stress has no appetite for life on human terms... — Jeff Nuttall

There is a concatenation of events in this best of all possible worlds: for if you had not been kicked out of a magnificent castle for love of Miss Cunegonde: if you had not been put into the Inquisition: if you had not walked over America: if you had not stabbed the Baron: if you had not lost all your sheep from the fine country of El Dorado: you would not be here eating preserved citrons and pistachio-nuts. — Voltaire