Author: Allen Ginsberg

Quotes

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

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

- Allen Ginsberg

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.

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

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

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

- Allen Ginsberg

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

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

- 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.

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

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

- Allen Ginsberg

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

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

- Allen Ginsberg

I am 23, the year of the iron birthday, the gate of darkness. I am ill.

I am 23, the year of the iron birthday, the gate of darkness. I am ill.

- Allen Ginsberg

I have been wrathful all my life, angry against my father and all others. My wrath must end. All my images now are of heaven.

I have been wrathful all my life, angry against my father and all others. My wrath must end. All my images now are of heaven.

- Allen Ginsberg

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