America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
– Allen Ginsberg
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa!
– Allen Ginsberg
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
– Allen Ginsberg
It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
– Allen Ginsberg
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
– Allen Ginsberg
Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine, jiggling your knees blankly in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.
– Allen Ginsberg
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.
– Allen Ginsberg
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
– Allen Ginsberg
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
– Allen Ginsberg
I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.