350 Quotes by allen ginsberg

Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!

What is obscenity? And to whom?

The Rolling Stones were an inkling towards an appreciation of the unity of music, dance and words. Any of the black R&B people who had a stage show that involved dancing, music and words did the same thing, except that I thought Jagger's words were good, his music was good and his dancing was good. I spoke to him about Blake and tried to get him to sing [William] Blake's The Grey Monk, to use his words as lyrics. He didn't do it. In the end, I did it myself.

Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!

The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid.

I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric.

I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do.

Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.

We are all exposed to the flash bulb of death.