All Allen Ginsberg Quotes
America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
Allen Ginsberg
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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
Allen Ginsberg
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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
Allen Ginsberg
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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.
Allen Ginsberg
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
Allen Ginsberg
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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
Allen Ginsberg
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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
Allen Ginsberg
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Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
Allen Ginsberg
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I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.
Allen Ginsberg
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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
Allen Ginsberg
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The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
Allen Ginsberg
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