Allen Ginsberg Poem Quotes & Sayings

The madman bum and angel beat in time with the absolute heart of the poem butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years — Allen Ginsberg

I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well as argument-to a poem. But all my life, I've also been a person who's made his bed in the morning and picks up the bath mat. That's what I mean by temperament. Whether genetic or acquired, I have a disposition to arrangements. One is born with this, as if with blue eyes or a weak heart. Do you think Allen Ginsberg ever put the cap back on his toothpaste? — J. D. McClatchy

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy! — Allen Ginsberg

America, the plum blossoms are falling. — Allen Ginsberg

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years. — Allen Ginsberg

How mercy gets to exist, where it comes from, perhaps can be seen from the inner evidence and images of the poem - an act of self-realization, self acceptance and the consequent and inevitable relaxation of protective anxiety and self hood and the ability to see and love others in themselves as angels without stupid mental self deceiving moral categories selecting who it is safe to sympathize with and who is not safe. — Allen Ginsberg