The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred
Interpretation
A photograph captures a moment that reminds us of the beauty and impermanence of life.
Allen Ginsberg's quote reflects on how photographs encapsulate transient moments, emphasizing the fleeting nature of existence. This transitoriness is what infuses photographs with emotional depth, making them a sacred representation of memories that are both ephemeral and profound.
In practice
This quote can be used in a photography exhibition to highlight the emotional depth of captured moments.
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 Iβll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.
Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition.
Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.
I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book.
I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.
When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.
A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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