Latest Allen Ginsberg Quotes from Interviews

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• If you want to make order, put your own heart in order, and, having put one's heart in order, one can regulate the family order.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Heart, Order, Want

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• [William Butler] Yeats has the phrase Hodos Chameliontos, chameleon-like, in that you don't know where the beginning or the middle or the end is, so it's an unrelieved hallucination, because you don't know where you're coming in and you don't know where you're going out. It ends, you're going into the hallucination, or maybe coming out of it, I don't know.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Going Out, Phrases, Hallucinations

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

• Now I have enough money to travel wherever I want, but I haven't got the health.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Want, Enough, Havens

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

• Presumably, if you see spirit at the moment it gained access, then it'll be dropped.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Spirit, Moments, Access

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

• This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access. And also to the name of the spirit. Just to know that it's the Ugly Spirit. That's a great step. Because the spirit doesn't want its name to be known.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Practice, Names, Catholic

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

• That's what the shaman said. He didn't know what he was up against. He didn't expect the strength and weight and evil intensity of this spirit, this "entity," as he called it. The same way the priest in an exorcism has to take on the spirit.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Evil, Weight, Way

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

• The first person who really showed me the ugly spirit was Brion Gysin. "The ugly spirit shot Joan because . . ." and I never found out why. This Brion wrote out on a piece of paper in a sort of trance state.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Pieces, Paper, Ugly

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

• It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American. The ugly American at his ugly worst. That's exactly what it is.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Evil, Ugly, Tycoons

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

• To get on screen with the Talking Asshole, quite a feat. And it's certainly going to be a cult film that people will be seeing.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Talking, People, Film

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

• The combination of drugs, homosexuality, some good prose recited on screen. . . . In the sweat lodge ceremony we went through, did you get any glimpse of the Ugly Spirit, what that was historically or biographically?

  Allen Ginsberg

  Sweat, Drug, Glimpse

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

• The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it's a relief to realize you can let go.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Letting Go, Hands, People

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

• I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost success. In other words, in the long run, after a certain age, the motives for success, pride or oppressing people or getting power.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Running, Pride, Men

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

• I've got enough money to live where I want, but I don't want to move.Go out and have sexual adventures in Burma.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Moving, Adventure, Want

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com