Allen Ginsberg

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked"

"America I've given you all and now I'm nothing"

"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world"

"Holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy"

"Poet, farewell, I'll see you in the next lifetime"

"Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness"

"Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind"

"The strength of literature is that it can literally make you feel less alone"

"I want to know what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life"

"Kerouac was a great man and a great writer"

"Consciousness is three times three"

"Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa"

"We're caught in a net and the only way out is to acknowledge the net"

"I have nothing to say and I am saying it"

"The mind is shapely, action is slow to follow thought"

"Everybody's mind must be changed or we die"

"What if someone gave a war and nobody came"

"Nature is not separate from humanity"

"Love is the only god I know"

"I'll die when I stop writing"

"Television men who speak in tubes"

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people"

"I want to be known as the most sexual man in America"

"Ginsberg equals poetry equals freedom"

"The secret of the beat generation was sympathy"

"America how can I write a holy litany in your silly hour"

"Morning comes whether or not you make it"

"I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel"

"Everywhere sprouts some sign of reality"

"The only thing to do is to say yes to the present moment"