Quotes from Allen Ginsberg

I've got enough money to live where I want, but I don't want to move.Go out and have sexual adventures in Burma.

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.

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 learned a world from each / one whom I loved

You are what you think about all day.

The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.

Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.

what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination

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

Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!

America free Tom MooneyAmerica save the Spanish LoyalistsAmerica Sacco & Vanzetti must not dieAmerica I am the Scottsboro boys.

Let the straight flower bespeak its purpose in straightness - to seek the light. Let the crooked flower bespeak its purpose in crookedness - to seek the light. Let the crookedness and straightness bespeak the light.

A naked lunch is natural to us, we eat reality sandwiches But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.

This is the end, the redemption from Wilderness, way for the Wonderer, House sought for All, black handkerchief washed clean by weeping.

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

America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fixangelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night.

I really would like to stop working forever—never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I'm doing now—and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends.... Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence.

We're all golden sunflowers inside.

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

O motherwhat have I left outO motherwhat have I forgotten

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.