American - Poet | June 3, 1926 - April 5, 1997
Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Allen Ginsberg
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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.
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Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
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You see those guys wearing baggy pants, descendants of the parachute pants, wearing an odd, weird Frankenstein haircut. It all comes out of Peter Lorre.
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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.
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
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I would say that Times Square was the central hangout for Burroughs, Kerouac, and myself from about 1945 to 1948.
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I recommend for any basic course on the Beat Generation to familiarize yourself with 'The Idiot,' Prince Myshkin. He was Dostoyevsky's idea of the most beautiful human being he could imagine, the creation of a saint in literature.
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America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
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Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
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The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
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