Mariana’s Reviews > The Essential Ginsberg > Status Update

"The effect is to release self and audience from a false and self-denying self-deprecating image of ourselves which makes us feel like smelly shits and not the angels which we most deeply are." ~ p. 339

"But traveling in countries like Cuba and Viet Nam I realize that the people that get the real evil side effects of America are there—in other words, it really is like imperialism, in that sense. People in the United States all got money, all got cars, and everybody else starved on account of American foreign policy. Or is being bombed out, torn apart, and bleeding on the street (...)." ~ p. 274

"It's the ability to commit to writing, to write, the same way that you... are! Anyway! You have many writers who have preconceived ideas about what literature is supposed to be and their ideas seem to exclude that which makes them most charming in private conversation. Their faggishness, or their campiness, or their neurasthenia, or their solitude, or their goofiness, or their—even—masculity, at times." ~ p. 265