Mind Writing Slogans, Part I, by Allen Ginsberg

      I Background (Situation, Or Primary Perception)

1. "First Thought, Best Thought" — Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche
2. "Take a friendly attitude toward your thoughts." — Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche
3. "The Mind must be loose." — John Adams
4. "One perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception." — Charles Olson, "Projective Verse"
5. "My writing is a picture of the mind moving." — Philip Whalen
6. "Surprise Mind" — Allen Ginsberg
7. "The old pond, a frog jumps in, Kerplunk!" — Basho
8. "Magic is the total delight (appreciation) of chance." — Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche
9. "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes." –– Walt Whitman
10. "...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
11. "Form is never more than an extension of content. — Robert Creeley to Charles Olson
12. "Form follows function." — Frank Lloyd Wright
13. "Ordinary Mind includes eternal perceptions." — Allen Ginsberg
14. "Nothing is better for being Eternal Nor so white as the white that dies of a day." — Louis Zukofsky
15. "Notice what you notice." — Allen Ginsberg
16. "Catch yourself thinking." — Allen Ginsberg
17. "Observe what’s vivid." — Allen Ginsberg
18. "Vividness is self-selecting." — Allen Ginsberg
19. "Spots of Time" — William Wordsworth
20. "If we don’t show anyone, we’re free to write anything." ─ Allen Ginsberg
21. "My mind is open to itself." — Gelek Rinpoche
22. "Each on his bed spoke to himself alone, making no sound." — Charles Reznikoff
     

-  Mind Writing Slogans, Part I, compiled by Alllen Ginsberg, 1926-1997. 

Allen Ginsberg. "Mind Writing Slogans," copyright © 1993 by Allen Ginsberg, in
What Book: Buddha Poems From Beat To Hiphop, Gary Gach, ed., copyright © 1998, Parallax Press.]
"First Thought is Best in Art, Second in Other Matters." ─ William Blake