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.
About This Quote
About Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg was a 20th-century American poet and writer. Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it