Allen Ginsberg

The only way to be truly alive is to embrace your own mortality.

I am a dream, and I am a nightmare, and I am a fantasy, and I am a reality, and I am a myth, and I am a legend.

The universe is a dance, and we are all dancers in it.

I'm a great believer in the power of silence, and the power of stillness, and the power of contemplation.

The only way to find peace is to embrace your own chaos.

I am a question, and I am an answer, and I am a problem, and I am a solution, and I am a cause, and I am an effect.

I'm a great believer in the power of humor, and the power of laughter, and the power of joy.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix.

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

Holy the groaning saxophone! Holy the bop apocalypse! Holy the jazzbands marijuana hipsters peace & junk & drums!

I’m not afraid to say what I mean. That’s why I’m a poet.

Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars!

I'm a Buddhist. I'm a Jew. I'm a Communist. I'm a homosexual. I'm an old man. I'm a young man. I'm a woman. I'm a child. I'm a black man. I'm a white man. I'm an American. I'm a Russian. I'm a Chinese. I'm a Martian. I'm a dog. I'm a cat. I'm a tree. I'm a flower. I'm a rock. I'm a river. I'm a mountain. I'm a star. I'm a galaxy. I'm a universe. I'm a god. I'm a devil. I'm nothing. I'm everything.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Put your queer shoulder to the wheel.

I don't think there's any such thing as obscenity. I think it's a social invention.

To be a poet in a time of great stress, you have to be a prophet.

The only thing that can save the world is the return of the feminine principle, the return of the goddess.

My own mind is a dangerous neighborhood.

If you don't have a story, you're not a human being. You're just a collection of cells.