Allen Ginsberg quotes

Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and leading figure of the Beat Generation. His work challenged conventions and addressed issues of politics, sexuality, and personal freedom. He became an icon of counterculture and a passionate advocate for free expression. Here are 83 of his quotes:

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. (Allen Ginsberg)
America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing. View quote
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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. View quote
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Poets are damned... but see with the eyes of angels. View quote
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Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. View quote
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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. View quote
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America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry. View quote
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I know too much and not enough. View quote
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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. View quote
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America, why are your libraries full of tears? View quote
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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed. (Allen Ginsberg)
I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. View quote
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Everybody's serious but me. View quote
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I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision. View quote
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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now. View quote
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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. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found-the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it. View quote
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Our heads are round so thought can change direction. View quote
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What if someone gave a war and Nobody came? View quote
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You too must seek the sun. View quote
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. View quote
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I smoke marijuana every chance I get. (Allen Ginsberg)
We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter. View quote
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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa! View quote
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You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism. View quote
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The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene. View quote
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Allen Ginsberg

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Occupation: American Poet
Born: June 3, 1926
Died: April 5, 1997
Quotes count: 83
Wikipedia: Allen Ginsberg

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