350 Quotes by allen ginsberg

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

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

My psychoanalyst thinks I’m perfectly right.

The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene.

Poetry’s role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

Death which is the mother of the universe! – Now wear your nakedness forever, white flowers in your hair, your marriage sealed behind the sky – no revolution might destroy that maidenhood.

What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes! – and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I’ll never be sane.

The world knows the love that’s in its breast as in the flower, the suffering lonely world.