Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think,… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Holy time in eternity holy eternity in time holy the clocks in space holy the fourth dimension holy the fifth International holy… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Presumably, if you see spirit at the moment it gained access, then it'll be dropped. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“He saw that I was shy, and at the time I was still scared of feeling with another person, so he put… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched over Denver &… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“Now mind is clear as a cloudless sky. Time then to make a home in wilderness. What have I done but wander… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“The madman bum and angel beat in time with the absolute heart of the poem butchered out of their own bodies good… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“And I in a concrete room above the abandoned labyrinth of Palenque measuring my fate, wandering solitary in the wild --blinking singleminded… — 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