Quotes by Allen Ginsberg
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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa!
Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine, jiggling your knees blankly in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
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.
America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
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