Quotes by Allen Ginsberg

About Allen Ginsberg:

Irwin Allen Ginsberg is best known for his epic poem "Howl", in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States.
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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

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

Allen Ginsberg

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

Allen Ginsberg

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

Allen Ginsberg

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

Allen Ginsberg

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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America, the plum blossoms are falling.

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and he imagines cars and rides them in his dreams, so lonely growing up among the imaginary automobiles and dead souls of Tarrytown to create out of his own imagination the beauty of his wild forebears - a mythology he cannot inherit.

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We're all golden sunflowers inside.

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So he said, 'What would you like to do? What is your desire really?' I said, 'Doctor, I don't think you're going to find this very healthy and clear, but I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind ...

Allen Ginsberg

Every American wants MORE MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact information at the expense of what really counts as more: f...

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

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You know, the guys there were so beautiful—they've lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago.

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

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I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

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This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven.

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Author Bio

  • NameAllen Ginsberg
  • DescriptionAmerican poet
  • AliasesIrwin Allen Ginsberg
  • BornJune 2, 1926
  • DiedApril 5, 1997
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Poet; Writer; Autobiographer
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; National Book Award