Allen Ginsberg startled the audience at Outwrite, the gay literary conference, when he confessed he didn’t worry about AIDS since his sex life consisted chiefly of giving blowjobs to straight college boys.

— Christopher Bram

America when will you be angelic? When will you take off your clothes?

— Allen Ginsberg

Another lover hits the universe. The circle is broken. But with death comes rebirth. And like all lovers and sad people, I am a poet.

— Allen Ginsberg

If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I us edit up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns London follow my Pashto extinction

— Allen Ginsberg

We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned, but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.

— William Carlos Williams

Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping with sensation of Later Omnipotent Veteran Zeus to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame

— Allen Ginsberg