Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the burdens of heightened awareness and understanding of life.
Allen Ginsberg's quote suggests that possessing a deep consciousness about the human experience can lead to existential fear and anxiety, especially as each new day begins with its uncertainties and challenges. It implies that awareness can be both a gift and a source of distress, as one confronts the realities of life and the weight of existence at each sunrise.
In practice
During a lecture on existential philosophy, this quote can be used to illustrate the theme of awareness and fear.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.
Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.
Many seek and never see, anyone can tell them why. O they weep and O they cry and never take until they try unless they try it in their sleep and never some until they die. I ask many, they ask me. This is a great mystery.
What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?
Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
Sometime Iβll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
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