Allen Ginsberg Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Allen Ginsberg:

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
~Allen Ginsberg


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/allen-ginsberg-quotes/#410d4611

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
~Allen Ginsberg


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/allen-ginsberg-quotes/#f2690ffd

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
~Allen Ginsberg


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/allen-ginsberg-quotes/#bb985ba9

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
~Allen Ginsberg


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/allen-ginsberg-quotes/#33caead6

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
~Allen Ginsberg


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/allen-ginsberg-quotes/#df358918

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/allen-ginsberg-quotes/#bf320104

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
~Allen Ginsberg


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/allen-ginsberg-quotes/#323e545c

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/allen-ginsberg-quotes/#5d355934

America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
~Allen Ginsberg


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/allen-ginsberg-quotes/#b9d65f8d

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/allen-ginsberg-quotes/#f32811ce

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
~Allen Ginsberg


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/allen-ginsberg-quotes/#7d0cfcce

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
~Allen Ginsberg


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/allen-ginsberg-quotes/#0d2f4137

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
~Allen Ginsberg


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/allen-ginsberg-quotes/#bd882987

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/allen-ginsberg-quotes/#39d51c95

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/allen-ginsberg-quotes/#1843c83c

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/allen-ginsberg-quotes/#c1754f39

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/allen-ginsberg-quotes/#f1003c49

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
~Allen Ginsberg


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/allen-ginsberg-quotes/#fba1638c

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