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Allen Ginsberg
American
Poet
About the author
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,
American
Poet
#Want
#People
#Poetry
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
Allen Ginsberg,
American
Poet
#Love
#World
#Burden
#Weight
#Solitude
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
Allen Ginsberg,
American
Poet
#World
#Poetry
#Awareness
Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
Allen Ginsberg,
American
Poet
#Church
Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
Allen Ginsberg,
American
Poet
#Eyes
#Poets
#Angels
Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
Allen Ginsberg,
American
Poet
#Culture
#Media
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,
American
Poet
#Time
#Public
#Thinking
#World
#Night
#Expression
#Poetry
#Party
#Bed
#Lying
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
Allen Ginsberg,
American
Poet
#Experience
#Students
#Genius
#Bed
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,
American
Poet
#People
#Public
#Mind
#Poetry
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,
American
Poet
#Fact
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
Allen Ginsberg,
American
Poet
#Madness
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,
American
Poet
#Art
#World
#Living
#Effort
#Community
Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Allen Ginsberg,
American
Poet
#Madness
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
Allen Ginsberg,
American
Poet
America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
Allen Ginsberg,
American
Poet
#Now
#Nothing
#America
America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
Allen Ginsberg,
American
Poet
#America
#Silly
America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
Allen Ginsberg,
American
Poet
#America
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,
American
Poet
#Thinking
#Saying
#Talking
#Thoughts