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Allen Ginsberg [1926-1997] American

Rank: 101
Poet (with poems)

Beat, Confessionalism, Fantasy, Free verse, Homoerotism, Modernism, Neoromanticism, New American Poetry, Romanticism, Surrealism, Transgressive fiction

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the counterculture that soon would follow.

Poetry, Motivational, Time

Quote	Tags	Rank
Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.	Motivational	101
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.	Poetry, Time	102
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!		103
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.		104
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.	Poetry	105
I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.		106
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.	Poetry	107
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.		108
Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.		109
Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.		110
The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.		111
America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.		112
I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.	Poetry	113
Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.		114
Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.		115
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.		116
America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?		117
America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.		118

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