Best Quotes by Allen Ginsberg (Top 10)
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Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Allen Ginsberg
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I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.
Allen Ginsberg
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Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?
Allen Ginsberg
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Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.
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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Our heads are round so thought can change direction
Allen Ginsberg
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Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
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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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
Allen Ginsberg
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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
Allen Ginsberg
More Allen Ginsberg Quotes
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To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.
Allen Ginsberg
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I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.
Allen Ginsberg
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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
Allen Ginsberg
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Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
Allen Ginsberg
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Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!
Allen Ginsberg
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Well, while I'm here I'll do the work â and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.
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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America, why are your libraries full of tears?
Allen Ginsberg
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What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?
Allen Ginsberg
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one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others
Allen Ginsberg
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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
Allen Ginsberg
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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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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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Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.
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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America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
Allen Ginsberg