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121 " I write poetry because I want to be alone and want to talk to people. "
― Allen Ginsberg , Cosmopolitan Greetings
122 " O victory forget you're underwear we're free. "
― Allen Ginsberg , Howl and Other Poems
123 " I am miserable now—not feeling unhappiness, just lack of life coming to me and coming out of me—resignation to getting nothing and seeking nothing, staying behind shell. The glare of unknown love, human, unhad by me,—the tenderness I never had. I don’t want to be just a nothing, a sick blank, withdrawal into myself forever. I just want something, beside the emptiness I’ve carried around in me all my life. "
― Allen Ginsberg , The Letters of Allen Ginsberg
124 " The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burde of dissatisfaction the weight, the weight we carry is love. "
― Allen Ginsberg , Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
125 " Trees hang their branches "
― Allen Ginsberg , The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971
126 " We the People - shelling the Vietcong "
127 " Eat Meat and your a beast "
128 " Machine chaos on Earth, Too many bodies, mouths bleeding on every Continent "
129 " False emotions broadcast thru the Land "
130 " Central Intelligence cutting Meo opium fields! China Lobby copping poppies in Burma! How long this Addict government support our oil-burner matter-habit "
131 " My national resources consist of two joints of marijuana millions of genitals an unpublishable private literature that goes 1400 miles an hour and twenty-five-thousand mental institutions. "
132 " our means in America to control the money munching war machine, bright lit industry "
133 " And the Children of the Warmakers're exempt from fighting their parents' war "
134 " I feel my life is sterile, I am unbloomed, unused, I have nothing I can have that I will ever want, only some love, only dearness and tenderness, to make me weep. I am moved now and sad and unhappy beyond cold unhappiness, beyond any inconvenience that will cause you by my affection. "
135 " Money! Money! Money! shrieking mad celestial money of illusion! Money made of nothing, starvation, suicide! Money of failure! Money of death! Money against Eternity! and eternity's strong mills grind out vast paper of Illusion! "
136 " No point writing when the spirit doth not lead. "
137 " Burroughs ... his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars. "
― Allen Ginsberg , Kaddish and Other Poems
138 " The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn. "
― Allen Ginsberg , Collected Poems 1947-1997
139 " the madman bum and angel beat in Time, unknown, yet putting down here what might be left to say in time come after death, and rose reincarnate in the ghostly clothes of jazz in the goldhorn shadow of the band and blew the suffering of America’s naked mind for love into an eli eli lamma lamma sabacthani saxophone cry that shivered the cities down to the last radio with the absolute heart of the poem of life butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years. "
140 " Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. "
― Allen Ginsberg
