allen ginsberg Quotes

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation.

Birth: June 03, 1926 - Death: April 05, 1997

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

It isn’t enough for your heart to break because everybody’s heart is broken now.

Topic(s): Heart , Enough , Break

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

Topic(s): Brain , Cold , Snow

Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.

Topic(s): America , Brain , Cold

Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.

Topic(s): Inspirational , Life , Beautiful

When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.

Topic(s): Sacred

I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?

Topic(s): Boys , Heard , Saws

I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.

Topic(s): World , Long , Children

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

Topic(s): America , Literature , Given

You can’t photograph everything.

Topic(s): Photograph

Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!

Topic(s): Thank God

All these books are published in Heaven.

Topic(s): Book , Heaven

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