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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Absolutes are Coercion. Change is absolute.

Allen Ginsberg

I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly. God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.

Allen Ginsberg

...robots pencil prescriptions for acid gas sunsets

Allen Ginsberg

in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night

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.

Allen Ginsberg

who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched over Denver & brooded and loned in Denver and finally went away to find out the Time, & now Denver is lonesome for her heroes,

Allen Ginsberg

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Allen Ginsberg

..Moloch who entered my soul early. Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a body. Moloch who frightened me out of my natural ecstasy. Moloch whom I abandon. Wake up in Moloch.. Light streaming out of the sky. Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! I...

Allen Ginsberg

No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love -cannot be bitter, cannot deny, cannot withhold if denied: the weight is too heavy

Allen Ginsberg

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

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The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand and asshole holy! Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!

Allen Ginsberg

Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping with sensation of P...

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The Wisdom of Solomon (Carl) They censor words not the things they denote: It would create less of a stir to drop a piece of shit on Grant's tomb than to write it out in white paint. Because people recognize that's what memorials are for–old bums &...

Allen Ginsberg

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

Allen Ginsberg

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

Allen Ginsberg

Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!

Allen Ginsberg

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

Allen Ginsberg

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

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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.

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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

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