America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
- Allen Ginsberg Quote

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
- Allen Ginsberg Quote

America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
- Allen Ginsberg Quote

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
- Allen Ginsberg Quote

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
- Allen Ginsberg Quote

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 Quote

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

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.
- Allen Ginsberg Quote

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

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.
- Allen Ginsberg Quote

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

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
- Allen Ginsberg Quote

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
- Allen Ginsberg Quote