Allen Ginsberg

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

"Hold back the edges of your gowns, Ladies, we are going through hell."

"The weight of the world is love."

"Substance is better than content, and content is better than form."

"In my life I've given myself over to various muses and I don't regret any of it."

"I want to come back to earth as a good potato."

"The only authoritative answer to the question of life's meaning is that which each person creates for themselves."

"Blake saw the Sunflower as the image of truth imprisoned in the material world."

"One day I will be a great man and the world will know my name."

"Mad to be sane, mad to be alive, mad to see the world in clarity."

"Time is a river of light."

"We're all beautiful in our broken hearts."

"The revolution begins within the soul of an individual."

"I have nothing to declare except my genius and my madness."

"Money is a kind of poetry, if you understand it correctly."

"The world is a hallucination, so act accordingly."

"Nobody saves America by sneezing McDonald hamburgers."

"Follow your inner moonlight, do not hide the madness."

"Everybody's sexual fantasy shapes the culture."

"The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain human."

"Death is a good solution to all problems."

"What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?"

"The only politics is individual vision."

"My mind is made up of comets spinning in the void."

"America needs a naked renaissance of fairness and love."

"Scratch the skin, find the humanity."

"I'm a poet, I'm a Buddhist, I'm a communist."

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

"Don't hide your suffering or your joy behind a fence."

"We are all enlightened, just have to realize it."