"America is ruled by a gang of capitalist thugs."

"I'm a great believer in the power of dreams, and the power of visions, and the power of prophecies."

"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."

"Because I am still clinging to my human known me, Allen Ginsberg — and to enter this thing means final, complete abandonment of all I know of my I am except for this outer-seeming otherness which requ…"

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination."