350 Quotes by allen ginsberg

Nobody wants to hear about your feelings, darling, tell me what you see!

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.

Inside skull vast as outside skull.

I was so sick that I found myself worrying about the future of man’s soul, my own in particular.

Bob Dylan’s one of the greatest blues singers of the western world; ancient art, on-the-spot improvisation, mind quickness, endless variation, classical formulae, prophetic vision, mighty wind-horse.

Who can prophesy peace, or vow Futurity for any but armed insects.

From it’s inception Beat poetry was hailed as “something NEW” and “like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected – by hip people who listen.” But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.

If we don’t show anyone, we’re free to write anything.

I feel my life is sterile, I am unbloomed, unused, I have nothing I can have that I will ever want, only some love, only dearness and tenderness, to make me weep. I am moved now and sad and unhappy beyond cold unhappiness, beyond any inconvenience that will cause you by my affection.