Quotes by Allen Ginsberg

“We're all golden sunflowers inside.”

“I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.”

“Poets are damned but see with the eyes of angels.”

“who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched over Denver & brooded and loned in Denver and finally went away to find out the Time, & now Denver...”

“I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly.God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.”

“Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!”

“Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy!The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and handand assho...”

“If I had a soul I sold itfor pretty wordsIf I had a body I usedit up spurting my essenceAllen Ginsberg warns youdont follow my pathto extinction”

“I never dreamed the sea so deep,The earth so dark; so long my sleep,I have become another child.I wake to see the world go wild.”

“Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!”

“Another lover hits the universe. The circle is broken. But with death comes rebirth. And like all lovers and sad people, I am a poet.”

“one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of ones own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal sel...”

“The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy!The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and handand asshole holy!Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere isholy! everyday is in eternity...”

“Just because I like to suck cock doesn't make me any less American than Jesse Helms.”

“We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter”

“Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Spacethrough images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash o...”

“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. ”

“I learned a world from each / one whom I loved”

“and he imagines carsand rides them in his dreams,so lonely growing up amongthe imaginary automobilesand dead souls of Tarrytownto createout of his own imaginationthe beauty of his wildforebears - a...”

“Man is no form no mighty molecule no justidea alone all that Thing I feel man tender radiance at Heart betweenbreast and belly, that physical placewhere the Self urges delicate sensation”