Allen Ginsberg Quotes

The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.

who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched o...

America this is quite serious

I’m obsessed by Time Magazine.I read it every week.Always telling me about responsibility. Businessm...

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy!The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand...

No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machi...

Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!The world is...

..Moloch who entered my soul early. Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a body. Moloch who f...

in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door...

Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!

Man is no form no mighty molecule no justidea alone — all that Thing — I feel man tender radiance at...

Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Spacethrough images juxtaposed, and trapped the archang...

I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly.God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.

You can own an elephant or a bank or power thereof but if there's no personal breast bliss all you o...

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for peopl...

America when will you be angelic? When will you take off your clothes?

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction t...

It occurs to me that I am America.I am talking to myself again.

Follow your inner moonlight don't hide the madness.

We're all golden sunflowers inside.

Every American wants MORE MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in...

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for peopl...

I would rather go mad, gone down the dark road to Mexico, heroin dripping in my veins, eyes and ears...

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

Another lover hits the universe. The circle is broken. But with death comes rebirth. And like all lo...

Everybody's serious but me.

and he imagines carsand rides them in his dreams,so lonely growing up amongthe imaginary automobiles...

America, the plum blossoms are falling.

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

I have no other possessions of value but my soul.

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what ...

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa!

So he said, 'What would you like to do? What is your desire really?' I said, 'Doctor, I don't think ...

I never dreamed the sea so deep,The earth so dark; so long my sleep,I have become another child.I wa...

Just because I like to suck cock doesn't make me any less American than Jesse Helms.

If I had a soul I sold itfor pretty wordsIf I had a body I usedit up spurting my essenceAllen Ginsbe...

America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what ...

one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity...