Allen Ginsberg

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.

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These are some quotes by American author Allen Ginsberg Poet, who lived between June 3, 1926 and April 5, 1997.

Quotes by Allen Ginsberg

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.

Allen Ginsberg

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

Allen Ginsberg

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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

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I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.

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