Quotes About Allen Ginsberg

Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? - Howl

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world!

I don't do anything with my life except romanticise and decay with indecision

we're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're all blessed by our own seed & golden hairy naked accomplishment (Sunflower Sutra)

senseless, senseless coughs of emotion

What Patriot wrote that shit?

No more to say, and nothing to weep for but the Beings in the Dream, trapped in its disappearance

There's a guy, Anatole Broyard, of the N. Y. Times Book Review, who's still chasing Kerouac's corpse with a stiletto.

I was so sick that I found myself worrying about the future of man's soul, my own in particular.

The world knows the love that's in its breast as in the flower, the suffering lonely world.

and he imagines cars and rides them in his dreams, so lonely growing up among the imaginary automobiles and dead souls of Tarrytown to create out of his own imagination the beauty of his wild forebears - a mythology he cannot inherit.

My psychoanalyst thinks I'm perfectly right. I won't say the Lord's Prayer. I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations.

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

I would say that Times Square was the central hangout for Burroughs, Kerouac, and myself from about 1945 to 1948.

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

I had been up all night with my old friend Allen Ginsberg, the poet, and we had both slid into the abyss of whiskey madness and full-bore substance abuse. It was wonderful

The motif of Beat Generation is basically misunderstood, a misinterpreted area. There's this superimposition of the idea of a social rebellion, which was the communist interpretation through Lawrence Lipton.

Ed Friedman: [talking about Patti Smith] One time she told me, "Allen Ginsberg thought I was a cute boy and he tried to pick me up, so I said, "LOOK AT THE TITS, ALLEN! NOTICE THE TITS!

I'm not just influenced by the '60s - it's who I am. I grew up with Allen Ginsberg and Che Guevara. I flirted with various forms of communism when it was way out of style. It was this really strange and creative time in music and culture, and it was fabulous.