Ginsberg Howl Quotes & Sayings

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

I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the majority of my time. The answer to that question always needs to be 'with my family.' — Elisabeth Hasselbeck

The rich are all alike, to revise Tolstoy's famous words, but the poor are poor in their own particular ways.

Any reasonably intelligent reader could blow that generalization apart in the time it takes to write it. But as with most generalizations, a truth lies behind it. Ultimately, what binds the rich together is that they have more money, lots more. For one reason or another, the poor don't have enough of it. But poverty doesn't bind the poor together as much as wealth and the need to protect it bind the rich. If it did, we would hear the rattle of tumbrels in the streets. One hears mutterings, but the chains have not yet been shed. — William McPherson

American literature has, since the time of the Puritans, featured the jeremiad as a prolonged complaint, a prophet's indictment of his society characteristic of work such as the muckrakers' novels or Allan Ginsberg's "Howl." Doctorow struggles to accommodate this form to his artistry (as successful practitioners of the work have always done). To this end, he has repeatedly adapted genres such as the Western, the romance, and the detective novel, often playing with accepted conventions, and thus avoiding didacticism. — Michelle M. Tokarczyk

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

You're a big boy now; you'll never let her go, but that's just the kind of thing she ought to know. Tell her about it. Tell her everything you feel. Giver her every reason to accept that you're for real. — Billy Joel

Perhaps people hate because it's more difficult to love. It also takes more courage to do the latter. — Primadonna Angela

It's kind of hard to balance school and work sometimes. But sometimes, like, if I'm going to the White House and I'm in there doing a tour and stuff, that's like school. — Justin Bieber

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

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

Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge. — Geoff Mulgan

I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance. — Lynn Coady

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

People striving for approval from others become phony. — Ichiro Suzuki

Her eyes narrowed. "You're not going to kill me, skin me, and wear my head as a hat?"
Yep. He was entertained. And, no. It wasn't normal. Instead of answering her question, he asked his own. "Do you want me to?"
"Not really."
"Then why are you asking?"
"Because according to my father, many teachers, and quite a few anger-management counselors, I seem to lack that little internal device that stops things that are best left unsaid from being said. — Shelly Laurenston

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

Accounting was the course that helped me more than anything. — Julian Robertson