All Allen Ginsberg Quotes
- The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. Awareness
- I smoke marijuana every chance I get. Chance
- First thought, best thought. Best
- It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population. All
- The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse. Armed
- Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain. America
- There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now. Anymore
- Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I've heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in your ignorance, in… Careful
- I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it is one difference. In less… Alien
- You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained… Attempt
- Things are symbols of themselves. Funny
- It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as hopeless - abandoning… Abandoning
- I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince… Advancing
- You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it… Burden
- Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in… Aesthetic
- America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood? America
- Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof huts Wet processions… Along
- The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain. Bad
- I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love… Believe
- Every American wants MORE & MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate… Accumulate