Ginsberg famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Even the most worthless thing in the world can be beautiful, it just takes the right touch

  • Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth

  • I am part of a divine essence. I don't have to become anything. I already am.

  • Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life. The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident.

  • Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .’ He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. ‘They change back.

  • If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.

  • At the beginning, people laughed at me because I was using snappies. Sometimes, a celebrity would look at my camera and go, Oh, I've got one of those. I'd feel like handing it to them and saying, Well, you take the pictures then. But I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.

  • Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.

  • God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.

  • For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.