Allen Ginsberg Quotes

I was putting on a stiff upper lip and trying to fulfill the obligations I thought were demanded of me, taking over my father's role of taking care of my mother... and having to be the recipient of her confessions and emotions but of a delusional nature.

Allen Ginsberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997

Topics

NatureFatherMotherMeThought

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

John Bradshaw

EgoSelfTrueTrue SelfSpotlight

I love when people tell me that I was gonna be a bust. I enjoy when people tell me, 'You suck. You can't dribble. You can't shoot,' because it's like, gotta go to the gym.

Joel Embiid

LovePeopleMeEnjoyYouGym

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

Sterling K. Brown

LifePerspectiveExperienceEmpathy

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Simone de Beauvoir

AgeChildUpAdultBlown

My hope is that I hit it big with something, and then I'll have enough of a cushion to carve out time to write a book. That would be my passion project.

Rob Thomas

PassionHopeTimeBookEnoughWrite

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

Robin Wright

LoveBeautyPoetryHardActJust

When I go out, I'm not going out to find a man; I'm going out to dance the night away with my best friends.

Mollie King

BestDanceManNightFriendsFind

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

Julia Child

FoodCookingUpStartedJustUntil

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

Jose Marti

IdeasObstaclesImpossibleReach

I think where I differ a little bit, we absolutely have to think about the deficit looking down the road. And certainly that's something the president has said that we need to, as the economy recovers, have a plan in place for getting it down.

Christina Romer

LookingRoadThinkPlanDownPlace

I know that one day I'm going to die. I want to accomplish as much as I can before I do.

Clarence Clemons

DayDieAccomplishI CanKnowWant

People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.

Paul Theroux

PeopleBooksWhoReadThreatened

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