Quote

America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

Allen Ginsberg

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
Autobiographer
Diarist
Musician
Photographer
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Paterson
New Jersey
Irwin Allen Ginsberg
Ayālena Gīnasabārga
Alen Ginzberg
Literature
Given
America
Nothing

More quotes by Allen Ginsberg

Image
When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
The first person who really showed me the ugly spirit was Brion Gysin. The ugly spirit shot Joan because . . . and I never found out why. This Brion wrote out on a piece of paper in a sort of trance state.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'
Allen Ginsberg
Image
Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night
Allen Ginsberg
Image
Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found - the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
Allen Ginsberg
Image
We are all exposed to the flash bulb of death.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
The censorship of language is the censorship of consciousness.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!
Allen Ginsberg
Image
To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
You are what you think about all day.
Allen Ginsberg
Image
Sanity - a trick of agreement
Allen Ginsberg
Image
It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American. The ugly American at his ugly worst. That's exactly what it is.
Allen Ginsberg