Allen Ginsberg

"Poet is defined as light and holy and sexuality is holy when it's not mixed with cruelty"

"The fact that we're alive is so miraculous that it seems to me we should be shocked into being more appreciative"

"God is in all men but all men are not in God"

"Substance is not to be found in the body, it is in the consciousness"

"I have seen the future and it is full of religion"

"How strange to be here in America"

"The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible"

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough"

"Death is the mother of beauty therefore she is also the mother of spirituality"

"Compassion is the ultimate and only out of a very deep and personal guilt"

"All that exists is energy and desire in different forms"

"The only thing that makes life meaningful is relationships"

"Follow your inner moonlight do not hide the madness"

"I'm happiest when I'm working and sharing that work with people"

"Blake said that the tree is more important than the human being but I think the human being is more important than the tree"

"Who denies long hair is as real as short hair denies the truth"

"The sexual revolution was a triumph and the counter-revolution is happening now"

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

"The great adventure is to discover what you really believe"

"Beauty is the moment when the intelligence finally intersects with the sensory world"

"It's not whether you win or lose but how you play the game that matters in life"

"Kerouac opened the American door to direct experience in writing"

"Fear is the lock and laughter is the key to freedom"

"The universe is an intelligent being and we are its thoughts"

"What if God was one of us living on the streets"

"Poetry means bringing in the intelligence of the heart into the language"

"To gain the world you must lose the self"

"Nothing is ever lost in this infinite universe"

"The best mind is the empty mind that can receive everything"

"Anger and tenderness are both acts of love"