Allen Ginsberg Quotes

I have a new method of poetry: All you got to do is look over your notebooks or lay down on a couch and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries; then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each -- don't bother about sentences -- in sections of two, three or four lines each.

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

Fortunately art is a community effort -- a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences, in sections of two, three or four lines each.

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

What if somebody gave a war and Nobody came? Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.

Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.