Sanity – a trick of agreement.
What is obscenity? And to whom?
Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.
Bob Dylan’s one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse.
Mind is shapely, Art is shapely.
Breathe when you breathe. Walk where you walk. Talk when you talk. Cry when you cry. Die when you die. Let go when you let go...
Poetry’s role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.
Everybody’s serious but me.
The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid.
I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric.
Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow.
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
You can’t photograph everything.
I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
We are all exposed to the flash bulb of death.
Ultimately Warhol’s private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
Let go of the spirit of the departed, and continue the celebration of your own life.
Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.
I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do.
Everything is holy! everybody’s holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman’s an angel!