If you want to make order, put your own heart in order, and, having put one's heart in order, one can regulate the family order.
Allen GinsbergLast Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.
Allen GinsbergThe typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!
Allen GinsbergI am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power; at any rate it is one difference. In less romantic and visionary terms, I am a Jew, (with powers of introspection and eclecticism attendant, perhaps.) But I am alien to your natural grace, to the spirit which you would know as a participator in America.
Allen Ginsberg