The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
Interpretation
One can lead a fulfilling life while maintaining decency and normalcy.
This quote by Allen Ginsberg emphasizes the idea that being a good and decent person does not preclude one from experiencing the fullness of life. It suggests that one can embrace their humanity and live vibrantly while also adhering to moral and ethical standards.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal development.
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.
When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little
Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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