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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) *** “First Thought, Best Thought” –Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche /// “Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts.” — Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche /// “The Mind must be loose.” –John Adams /// “One perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception.” –Charles Olson, “Projective Verse” /// “My writing is a picture of the mind moving.” –Philip Whalen /// Surprise Mind –Allen Ginsberg /// “The old pond, a frog jumps in, Kerplunk!” –Basho /// “Magic is the total delight (appreciation) of chance” –Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche /// “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, (I am large. I contain multitudes.)” –Walt Whitman /// “…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 /// “Form is never more than an extension of content.” –Robert Creeley to Charles Olson /// “Form follows function.” –Frank Lloyd Wright /// Ordinary Mind includes eternal perceptions. –A.G. /// “Nothing is better for being Eternal Nor so white as the white that dies of a day.” –Louis Zukofsky /// Notice what you notice. –A.G. /// Catch yourself thinking. –A.G. /// Observe what’s vivid. –A.G. /// Vividness is self-selecting. –A.G. /// “Spots of Time” –William Wordsworth /// If we don’t show anyone we’re free to write anything. –A.G. /// “My mind is open to itself.” –Gelek Rinpoche /// “Each on his bed spoke to himself alone, making no sound.” –Charles Reznikoff *** II. PATH (Method or Recognition) *** “No ideas but in things.” “…No ideas but in the Facts.” –William Carlos Williams /// “Close to the nose.” –W.C. Williams /// “Sight is where the eye hits.” –Louis Zukofsky /// “Clamp the mind down on objects.” –W.C.Williams /// “Direct treatment of the thing…” (or object.)” –E.Pound, 1912 /// “Presentation, not reference…” –Ezra Pound /// “Give me a for instance.” –Vernacular /// “Show not tell.” –Vernacular /// “The natural object is always the adequate symbol.” –Ezra Pound /// “Things are symbols of themselves.” –Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche /// “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 /// “And being old she put a skin/On everything she said.” –W.B.Yeats /// “Don’t think of words when you stop but to see the picture better.” –Jack Kerouac /// “Details are the Life of Prose.” –Jack Kerouac /// Intense fragments of spoken idiom, best. –A.G. /// “Economy of Words” –Ezra Pound /// “Tailoring” –Gregory Corso /// Maximum information, minimum number of syllables. –A.G. /// Syntax condensed, sound is solid. –A.G. /// Savor vowels, appreciate consonants. –A.G. /// “Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.” –Ezra Pound /// “…awareness…of the tone leading of the vowels.” –Ezra Pound /// “…an attempt to approximate classical quantitative meters…” –Ezra Pound /// “Lower limit speech, upper limit song” –Louis Zukofsky /// “Phanopoeia, Melopoeia, Logopoeia.” –Ezra Pound /// “Sight, Sound & Intellect.” — Louis Zukofsky /// “Only emotion objectified endures.” — Louis Zukofsky *** III. FRUITION (Result or Appreciation) *** Spiritus = Breathing = Inspiration = Unobstructed Breath /// “Alone with the Alone” –Plotinus /// Sunyata (Skt.) = Ku (Japanese) = Emptiness /// “What’s the sound of one hand clapping?” –Zen Koan /// “What’s the face you had before you were born?” –Zen Koan /// Vipassana (Skt.) = Clear Seeing /// “Stop the world” –Carlos Casteneda // “The purpose of art is to stop time.” –Bob Dylan /// “The unspeakable visions of the individual.” –J.K. /// “I’m going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.” –Chuang Tzu, (Tr. Burton Watson) /// “Candor” –Whitman /// “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” –Shakespeare /// “Contact” –A Magazine, Nathaniel West & W.C. Williams, Eds. /// “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 /// Subject is known by what she sees. –A.G. /// Others can measure their visions by what we see. –A.G. /// Candor ends paranoia. –A.G. /// “Willingness to be Fool.” — Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche /// “day & night/you’re all right” –Corso /// Tyger: “Humility is Beatness.” –Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche & A.G. /// Lion: “Surprise Mind” –Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche & A.G. /// Garuda: “Crazy Wisdom Outrageousness” –Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche /// Dragon: “Unborn Inscrutability” –Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche /// “To be men not destroyers” –Ezra Pound /// “Speech synchronizes mind & body.” –Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche /// “The Emperor unites Heaven & Earth.” –Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche /// “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” –Shelley /// “Make it new” –Ezra Pound /// “When the mode of music changes, the walls of the city shake” –Plato /// “Every third thought shall be my grave” –W. Shakespeare, “The Tempest” /// “That in black ink my love may still shine bright” –W. Shakespeare, Sonnets /// “Only emotion endures” –Ezra Pound /// “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. /// “…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. *** These jewels of wisdom are courtesy of TheHuffingtonPost. HT to Darrell Grizzle. Pictures are from ” Special Collections and Archives,Georgia State University Library”