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Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Follow Hide Inner Madness Moonlight Your

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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Awareness Does Only Poetry Save Save The World The Only Thing Thing World

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Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Controls Culture Images Media Whoever

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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.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Human Human Mind Known Mind Original Outlet People Place Poetry Private Public Say Speak Where

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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

Topics: Empty My Own Own Ran Realized Saying Skull Talking Think Thinking Thoughts Through I Think

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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Best Destroyed Generation Hysterical Madness Minds My Generation Naked Saw Starving

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

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Angels Eyes Poets See

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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

Topics: Against All My Life Angry Been End Father Heaven Images Life Must My Life Now Others Wrath

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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Boa Democracy Feather Hear Reach

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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

~Allen Ginsberg

Topics: Burden Dissatisfaction Love Solitude Weight World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: June 3rd, 1926

Died: April 5th, 1997

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