Quotes

“Now it’s weird enough to be in this human form so temporarily, without huge gangs of people, whole societies, trying to pretend that their temporary bread and breasts are the be-all and end-all of the soul’s fate, and enforcing this ridiculous opinion with big rules of conduct, bureaucracies to control the soul, FBI’s, television, wars, politics, boring religions. So what’ll we do in the next ten years? Blow up the universe? Probably not. But let’s blow up America- a false America’s been getting in the way of realization of beauty- let’s all get high on the soul.”

“1.The weight of the world is love.
2.The mind imagines all visions.
3.Man is as far divine as his imagination.
4.We must create as divine a world as we can imagine- must go on interpreting & recreating the given blank world.”

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he exhausts within himself all poisons, and preserves their quintessences. Unspeakable torment, where he will need the greatest faith, a superhuman strength, where he becomes all men the great invalid, the great criminal, the great accursed--and the Supreme Scientist! For he attains the unknown! Because he has cultivated his soul, already rich, more than anyone! He attains the unknown, and if, demented, he finally loses the understanding of his visions, he will at least have seen them! So what if he is destroyed in his ecstatic flight through things unheard of, unnameable: other horrible workers will come; they will begin at the horizons where the first one has fallen!”

“people are people no matter what politics color or words they use & they all have children buried in their head”

“it is not a cathouse of the rising sun or the death-wagon of the beat generation, but a bridge of clouds to a new culture”

Look things up. Chase every reference. Study everything there is to know about who inspires you. Then find 3 people they loved and find out everything about them. Build your own tre See yourself as apart of a creative lineage. Hang pictures of your fav artists in your studio so they push you forward.

You don’t get to pick your family. But you do get to pick your teachers, friends, music, books and movies. You are a mashup of what you choose to let into your life and influences. Shaped and fashioned by what you love.

"I have written you down, and now you will live forever and all the world will read you and you will live forever in eyes not yet created, on tongues not yet born."

"He is exactly the poem i wanted to write."

"TO LOVE SOMEONE LONG-TERM IS TO ATTEND A THOUSAND FUNERALS OF THE PEOPLE THEY USED TO BE.
The people they’re too exhausted to be any longer. The people they don’t recognise inside themselves anymore. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into. We so badly want the people we love to get their spark back when it burns out; to become speedily found when they are lost.
But it is not our job to hold anyone accountable to the people they used to be. It is our job to travel with them between each version and to honour what emerges along the way. Sometimes it will be an even more luminescent flame. Sometimes it will be a flicker that disappears and temporarily floods the room with a perfect and necessary darkness."

“The books I liked became a Bible from which I drew advice and support; I copied out long passages from them; I memorised new canticles and new litanies, psalms, proverbs, and prophecies, and I sanctified every incident in my life by the recital of these sacred texts. My emotions, my tears, and my hopes were no less sincere on account of that; the words and the cadences, the lines and the verses were not aids to make believe: but they rescued from silent oblivion all those intimate adventures of the spirit that I couldn’t speak to anyone about; they created a kind of communion between myself and those twin souls which existed somewhere out of reach; instead of living out my small private existence, I was participating in a great spiritual epic.”

“Never mind. I invented you. I invented you, as far as my purposes go. I invented loving you and I invented your death. I have my tricks and my trap doors, too.”