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Allen Ginsberg Quotes

Type: Poet   |    Date of Birth: 1921-03-03   |    Year of Death: 1997   |    Nationality: American
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


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