Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.

"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness."

"I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view."

"The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction the weight,the weight we carry is love."

"Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening."

"We're all golden sunflowers inside."

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."

"Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture."

"Our heads are round so thought can change direction"

"I know too much and not enough"

"Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private."

"I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane."

"Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!"

"Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!"

"If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction"

"America I've given you all and now I'm nothing."

"Everybody's serious but me."

"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"

"It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now."

"I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild."

"What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?"

"Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels."

"I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd."

"My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed."

"What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination"

"With dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and cock and endless balls"

"To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness."

"Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?"

"To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard."

"America, why are your libraries full of tears?"

"I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision."

"Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!"

"America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry."

"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"

"This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven."

"A naked lunch is natural to us We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness."

"Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow."

"The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open."

"Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!"

"No rest without love, No sleep without dreams of love - be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines the final wish is love."

"What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?"

"America I've given you all and now I'm nothing... I can't stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb."

"Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art is true expression and the true art."

"Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?"

"I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator."

"I learned a world from each / one whom I loved"

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving..."

"Sanity - a trick of agreement"

"All these books are published in Heaven."

"You too must seek the sun..."