Allen Ginsberg Quotes & Sayings

18 most famous Allen Ginsberg quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American poet who passed away on 5 April, 1997.

“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.”

“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”

“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.”

“Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.”

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.”

“Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.”

“I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.”

“The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.”

“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.”