Allen Ginsberg

“Eat Meat and your a beast”

— Allen Ginsberg

“YOUR NAME IS WRITTEN IN HEAVEN”

— Allen Ginsberg

Scientist alone is true poet.

— Allen Ginsberg

First thought, best thought.

— Allen Ginsberg

“I broadcast thru Time”

— Allen Ginsberg

“False emotions broadcast thru the Land”

— Allen Ginsberg

I know too much and not enough

— Allen Ginsberg

Inside skull vast as outside skull

— Allen Ginsberg

The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid.

— Allen Ginsberg

“...robots pencil prescriptions for acid gas sunsets”

— Allen Ginsberg

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

— Allen Ginsberg

“with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and cock and endless balls”

— Allen Ginsberg

“our means in America to control the money munching war machine, bright lit industry”

— Allen Ginsberg

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved

— Allen Ginsberg

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

— Allen Ginsberg

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

— Allen Ginsberg

“with my fucking suave manners and knowitall, eyes, and mind full of fantasy - the Me! that horror that keeps me conscious,…

— Allen Ginsberg

“Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night”

— Allen Ginsberg

I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.

— Allen Ginsberg

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal…

— Allen Ginsberg

The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

— Allen Ginsberg

If you want to make order, put your own heart in order, and, having put one's heart in order, one can regulate…

— Allen Ginsberg

Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have…

— Allen Ginsberg

“a communist conspiracy among the youth ... speakers on campuses/trained to condition idealistic brains”

— Allen Ginsberg

“who lounged hungry and lonesome through Houston seeking jazz or sex or soup, and followed the brilliant Spaniard to converse about America…

— Allen Ginsberg

The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the…

— Allen Ginsberg

The first person who really showed me the ugly spirit was Brion Gysin. "The ugly spirit shot Joan because . . ."…

— Allen Ginsberg

Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof…

— Allen Ginsberg

You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that…

— Allen Ginsberg

The motif of Beat Generation is basically misunderstood, a misinterpreted area. There's this superimposition of the idea of a social rebellion, which…

— Allen Ginsberg

So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So…

— Allen Ginsberg

Since art is merely and ultimately self-expressive, we conclude that the fullest art, the most individual, uninfluenced, unrepressed, uninhibited expression of art…

— Allen Ginsberg

The Rolling Stones were an inkling towards an appreciation of the unity of music, dance and words. Any of the black R&B…

— Allen Ginsberg

“I’m crying all the time now. I cried all over the street when I left the Seattle Wobbly Hall. I cried listening…

— Allen Ginsberg

The parts that embarrass you the most are usually the most interesting poetically, are usually the most naked of all, the rawest,…

— Allen Ginsberg

“..who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for an Eternity outside of Time, and alarm clocks fell on…

— Allen Ginsberg

No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like…

— Allen Ginsberg

“Holy time in eternity holy eternity in time holy the clocks in space holy the fourth dimension holy the fifth International holy…

— Allen Ginsberg

It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as…

— Allen Ginsberg

“And I in a concrete room above the abandoned labyrinth of Palenque measuring my fate, wandering solitary in the wild --blinking singleminded…

— Allen Ginsberg