Allen Ginsberg Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• 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.

• A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Art, Years, Poetry

• I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences, in sections of two, three or four lines each.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Notebook, Thinking, Two

• Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Poetry, Roles, Manipulation

• From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen." But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Echoes, People, Poetry

  Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde (1984). “On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg”, p.169, University of Michigan Press

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