Poetry is not an expression of the party line. Its that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, thats what the poet does. – Allen Ginsberg
I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. – Allen Ginsberg
When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred. – Allen Ginsberg
So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic. – Allen Ginsberg