No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love -cannot be bitter, cannot deny, cannot withhold if denied: the weight is too heavy
Interpretation
Love is essential for rest and fulfillment in life, and one cannot experience true peace without it.
In this quote, Allen Ginsberg expresses the idea that love is fundamental to human existence. He suggests that a life devoid of love leads to unrest and endless yearning, highlighting the deep emotional connection between love and inner peace. Ginsberg emphasizes that regardless of our distractions or obsessions, the ultimate desire is love, which should be embraced wholeheartedly, as failing to do so burdens the soul.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of community, one could say, 'As Allen Ginsberg reminds us, there is no rest without love.'
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 I’ll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.
For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn't marry my husband to have children. I married my husband because I love my husband.
Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love.
Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by
I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.
The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.
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