Allen Ginsberg

I'm a great believer in the idea that if you don't have something to say, you shouldn't say it.

The only good thing about America is that you can say anything you want.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

I want to be a poet, not a rich man.

The only way to be truly free is to be totally naked.

I'm not a guru. I'm a poet. I'm a human being.

The earth is a living organism. We are part of it. We are not separate from it.

I'm not afraid of death. I'm afraid of not living.

I'm a romantic. I'm a sentimentalist. I'm a humanist. I'm all of those things.

I'm not a political poet. I'm a human poet.

The best way to protest is to create something beautiful.

I'm a pacifist, but I'm not a passive pacifist.

The only revolution is the spiritual revolution.

I'm not a beatnik. I'm a poet.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy!

What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?

who lit up their cigarettes in boxcars boxcars boxcars trembling over the snow to an unseen Saskatchewan,

who broke their backs lifting Moloch into heaven!

I'm a registered Democrat. I'm a registered Buddhist. I'm a registered poet.