“Just because I like to suck cock doesn't make me any less American than Jesse Helms.” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“I'm with you in Rockland in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across America in tears to… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas / but not afraid / to speak my lonesomeness in a… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it is one… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Every American wants MORE & MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked... who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“I'm with you in Rockland in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across America in tears to the door… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Slaves of Plastic! Leather-shoe chino-pants prisoners! Haircut junkies! Dacron-shiffers!” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I was putting on a stiff upper lip and trying to fulfill the obligations I thought were demanded of me, taking over my father's… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
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… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“with my fucking suave manners and knowitall, eyes, and mind full of fantasy - the Me! that horror that keeps me conscious, in this… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it's a relief to realize you… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Central Intelligence cutting Meo opium fields! China Lobby copping poppies in Burma! How long this Addict government support our oil-burner matter-habit” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
