Allen Ginsberg
Howl, Beat poet
Sayings by Allen Ginsberg
The human race is a virus with shoes.
Democracy is a fraud perpetrated by the rich.
America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.
Just because I like to suck cock doesn't make me any less American than Jesse Helms.
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
Blessed be He in homosexuality! Blessed be He in Paranoia! Blessed be He in the city! Blessed be He in the Book!
One time I thought she was trying to make me come lay her -- flirting to herself at sink -- lay back on huge bed that filled most of the room, dress up round her hips, big slash of hair...
The actual experience of the smoked herb has been clouded by a fog of dirty language perpetrated by a crowd of fakers who have not had the experience and yet insist on downgrading it.
What it finally boils down to is that the fear is not about the drugs but about the police.
Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions.
I smoked marijuana every chance I get.
fortunately all governments will fall the only ones which won't fall are the good ones and the good ones don't yet exist
who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy,
who blew and were blown by those human seraphim, the sailors, caresses of Atlantic and Caribbean love,
who balled in the morning in the evenings in rosegardens and the grass of public parks and cemeteries scattering their semen freely to whomever come who may,
Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo!
Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks! Moloch whose poverty is the specter of genius! Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! Moloch whose name is the Mind!
Crazy in Moloch! Cocksucker in Moloch! Lacklove and manless in Moloch!