I am miserable now – not feeling unhappiness, just lack of life coming to me and coming out of me – resignation to getting nothing and seeking nothing, staying behind shell. The glare of unknown love, human, unhad by me, – the tenderness I never had. I don’t want to be just a nothing, a sick blank, withdrawal into myself forever. I just want something, beside the emptiness I’ve carried around in me all my life.

— Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg Quotes

No point writing when the spirit doth not lead.

— Allen Ginsberg

My psychoanalyst thinks I’m perfectly right.

— Allen Ginsberg

I’m with you in Rockland, where we are great writers on this same dreadful typewriter.

— Allen Ginsberg

The message is: Widen the area of consciousness.

— Allen Ginsberg

Without even intending it, there is that little shiver of a moment in time preserved in the crystal cabinet of the mind. A little shiver of internal space. That’s what I was looking for.

— Allen Ginsberg

Nobody wants to hear about your feelings, darling, tell me what you see!

— Allen Ginsberg

I am bored with these frantic cravings, tired of them and therefore myself, and contemptuous though tolerant of all my vast powers of self-pity and self-expressive misery.

— Allen Ginsberg

I hadn’t thought about what any army trains for. It merely maintains itself here for no exterior purpose.

— Allen Ginsberg

Why are you afraid to submit to the annihilation of such stupid meaningless unreal knowledge. This is the abyss. Everything is green, love, without the logical fantastic equivocations that we invent so that we won’t actually have to face each other.

— Allen Ginsberg

The most important thing about dreams is the existence in them of magical emotions, to which waking consciousness is not ordinarily sentient. Awe of vast constructions; familiar eternal halls of buildings; sexual intensity in rapport; deathly music; grief awakenings, perfected lodgings.

— Allen Ginsberg

America I’m putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

— Allen Ginsberg

It’s too bad our problems are not solved more easily. But that is an old stupid complaint. Still the others are stupid. It is as if to save ourselves we had to save them too. That is why genius must suffer- it has to bear the burdens of the whole world. Our happiness and reality depends on the happiness and reality of others.

— Allen Ginsberg

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.

— Allen Ginsberg

Death which is the mother of the universe! – Now wear your nakedness forever, white flowers in your hair, your marriage sealed behind the sky – no revolution might destroy that maidenhood.

— Allen Ginsberg

Where are we going, Walt Whitman?

— Allen Ginsberg

America will be refused eternity by her own mad son the bomb!

— Allen Ginsberg

Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns? This is my rocket my personal rocket I send up my message Beyond Someone to hear me there.

— Allen Ginsberg

You are a pot of gold, don’t think I don’ realize it.

— Allen Ginsberg

The poetry is like a rhythmic articulation of feeling.” – Allen Ginsberg.

— Allen Ginsberg

If you must suffer, suffer nobly. Love, laugh through your tears, or cry, create and perhaps, perish.

— Allen Ginsberg
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