Quotes by Allen Ginsberg

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden...

#Love

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

#Democracy

Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it...

#America And Americans, #Drugs

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of...

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The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that...

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

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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is...

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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying...

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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought...

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I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with...

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I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was...

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

#Allen Ginsberg