Top 15 Allen Ginsberg Quotes

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

I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.

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

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

We're all golden sunflowers inside.

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.

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

Our heads are round so thought can change direction

I know too much and not enough

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

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.

I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends. And I’d like to keep living with someone — maybe even a man — and explore relationships that way. And cultivate my perceptions, cultivate the visionary thing in me. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence.