Allen Ginsberg Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  Allen Ginsberg

  America, Literature, Wonder Years

  "America" l. 1 (1956)

• 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

  Time, Lying, Party

  Quoted in Barry Miles Ginsberg (1989), ch.5.

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

  Allen Ginsberg

  Solitude, Literature, World

  Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde (1984). “On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg”, p.31, University of Michigan Press

• Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Media, Art And Culture, Literature

  "Brain Power: Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills". Book by Karl Albrecht, p. 6, 1979.

• The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Alive, Literature, Facts

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

  Allen Ginsberg

  Democracies Have, Political, Democracy

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

  Allen Ginsberg

  Stupid, Silly, Writing

  "America" l. 55 (1956)

• My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Bed, Genius, Literature

• 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

  Thinking, Talking, Skulls

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