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Allen Ginsberg

You see those guys wearing baggy pants, descendants of the parachute pants, wearing an odd, weird Frankenstein haircut. It all comes out of Peter Lorre.

– Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

I was putting on a stiff upper lip and trying to fulfill the obligations I thought were demanded of me, taking over my father’s role of taking care of my mother… and having to be the recipient of her confessions and emotions but of a delusional nature.

– Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

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.

– Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

Ultimately Warhol’s private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

– Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

I have been wrathful all my life, angry against my father and all others. My wrath must end. All my images now are of heaven.

– Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

I recommend for any basic course on the Beat Generation to familiarize yourself with ‘The Idiot,’ Prince Myshkin. He was Dostoyevsky’s idea of the most beautiful human being he could imagine, the creation of a saint in literature.

– Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

– Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

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

– Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

Black musicians were imitating speech cadences, and Kerouac was imitating the black musicians’ breath cadences on their horns and brought it back to speech. It always was speech rhythms or cadences as far as the ear that Kerouac was developing. All passed through black music.

– Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

Poets are Damned… but See with the Eyes of Angels.

– Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

America, I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.

– Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

I would say that Times Square was the central hangout for Burroughs, Kerouac, and myself from about 1945 to 1948.

– Allen Ginsberg

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