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Allen Ginsberg Quotes

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.
Allen Ginsberg

Biography

Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: American
Born: June 3, 1926
Died: April 5, 1997

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

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
Allen Ginsberg

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Allen Ginsberg

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.
Allen Ginsberg

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
Allen Ginsberg

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.
Allen Ginsberg

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