Allen Ginsberg

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

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.'

I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.