Allen Ginsberg's Writing Slogans

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ALLEN GINSBERG'S MIND WRITING SLOGANS

"First thought is best in Art, second in other matters." --William Blake

I. GROUND (Situation, or Primary Perception)

1. "First Thought, Best Thought" --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche


2. "Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts." --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche

1. "The Mind must be loose." --John Adams




2. "One perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception." --Charles Olson, "Projective Verse"




3. "My writing is a picture of the mind moving." --Philip Whalen




4. Surprise Mind --Allen Ginsberg




5. "The old pond, a frog jumps in, Kerplunk!" --Basho




6. "Magic is the total delight (appreciation) of chance" --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche




7. "Do I contradict myself?
   Very well, then I contradict myself,
   (I am large. I contain multitudes.)" --Walt Whitman




8. "...What quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature? ...Negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason." --John Keats




9. "Form is never more than an extension of content." --Robert Creeley to Charles Olson




10. "Form follows function." --Frank Lloyd Wright




11. Ordinary Mind includes eternal perceptions. --A.G.




12. "Nothing is better for being Eternal
    Nor so white as the white that dies of a day." --Louis Zukofsky
    
    
    
    
13. Notice what you notice. --A.G.




14. Catch yourself thinking. --A.G.




15. Observe what's vivid. --A.G.




16. Vividness is self-selecting. --A.G.




17. "Spots of Time" --William Wordsworth




18. If we don't show anyone we're free to write anything. --A.G.




19. "My mind is open to itself." --Gelek Rinpoche




20. "Each on his bed spoke to himself alone, making no sound." --Charles Reznikoff




II. PATH (Method or Recognition)



21. "No ideas but in things." "...No ideas but in the Facts." --William Carlos Williams




22. "Close to the nose." --W.C.Williams




23. "Sight is where the eye hits." --Louis Zukofsky




24. "Clamp the mind down on objects." --W.C.Williams




25. "Direct treatment of the thing..." (or object.)" --E.Pound, 1912




26. "Presentation, not reference..." --Ezra Pound




27. "Give me a for instance." --Vernacular




28. "Show not tell." --Vernacular




29. "The natural object is always the adequate symbol." --Ezra Pound




30. "Things are symbols of themselves." --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche




31. "Labor well the minute particulars, take care of the little ones
    He who would do good for another must do it in minute particulars
    General Good is the plea of the Scoundrel Hypocrite and Flatterer
    For Art & Science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars" --William Blake




32. "And being old she put a skin/On everything she said." --W.B.Yeats




33. "Don't think of words when you stop but to see the picture better." --Jack Kerouac




34. "Details are the Life of Prose." --Jack Kerouac




35. Intense fragments of spoken idiom, best. --A.G.




36. "Economy of Words" --Ezra Pound




37. "Tailoring" --Gregory Corso




38. Maximum information, minimum number of syllables. --A.G.




39. Syntax condensed, sound is solid. --A.G.




40. Savor vowels, appreciate consonants. --A.G.




41. "Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome." --Ezra Pound




42. "...awareness...of the tone leading of the vowels." --Ezra Pound




43. "...an attempt to approximate classical quantitative meters..." --Ezra Pound




44. "Lower limit speech, upper limit song" --Louis Zukofsky




45. "Phanopoeia, Melopoeia, Logopoeia." --Ezra Pound




46. "Sight, Sound & Intellect." --Louis Zukofsky




47. "Only emotion objectified endures." -- Louis Zukofsky




III. FRUITION (Result or Appreciation)



48. Spiritus = Breathing = Inspiration = Unobstructed Breath




49. "Alone with the Alone" --Plotinus




50. Sunyata (Skt.) = Ku (Japanese) = Emptiness




51. "What's the sound of one hand clapping?" --Zen Koan




52. "What's the face you had before you were born?" --Zen Koan




53. Vipassana (Skt.) = Clear Seeing




54. "Stop the world" --Carlos Casteneda




55. "The purpose of art is to stop time." --Bob Dylan




56. "The unspeakable visions of the individual." --J.K.




57. "I'm going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly." --Chuang Tzu, (Tr. Burton Watson)




58. "Candor" --Whitman




59. "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." --Shakespeare




60. "Contact" --A Magazine, Nathaniel West & W.C. Williams, Eds.




61. "God Appears & God is Light
    To those poor Souls who dwell in Night
    But does a Human Form Display
    To those who Dwell in Realms of day." --W. Blake




62. Subject is known by what she sees. --A.G.




63. Others can measure their visions by what we see. --A.G.




64. Candor ends paranoia. --A.G.




65. "Willingness to be Fool." --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche




66. "day & night/you're all right" --Corso




67. Tyger: "Humility is Beatness." --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche & A.G.




68. Lion: "Surprise Mind" --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche & A.G.




69. Garuda: "Crazy Wisdom Outrageousness" --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche




70. Dragon: "Unborn Inscrutability" --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche




71. "To be men not destroyers" --Ezra Pound




72. "Speech synchronizes mind & body." --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche




73. "The Emperor unites Heaven & Earth." --Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche




74. "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." --Shelley




75. "Make it new" --Ezra Pound




76. "When the mode of music changes, the walls of the city shake" --Plato




77. "Every third thought shall be my grave" --W. Shakespeare, "The Tempest"




78. "That in black ink my love may still shine bright" --W. Shakespeare, Sonnets




79. "Only emotion endures" --Ezra Pound




80. "Well while I'm here I'll
    do the work--
    and what's the Work?
    To ease the pain of living.
    Everything else, drunken
    dumbshow." --A.G.
    
    
    
    
81. "...Kindness, sweetest
    of the small notes
    
    

    in the world's ache,
    most modest & gentle
    of the elements

    entered man before history
    and became his daily
    connection, let no man

    tell you otherwise." --Carl Rakosi