"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does"
- Allen Ginsberg
About this Quote
This quote by Allen Ginsberg speaks to the power of poetry as a type of expression. He suggests that poetry is not about conforming to a certain set of beliefs or worths, however rather about revealing one's own ideas and feelings. He likens it to depending on bed at night, when one is alone with their ideas and can reflect on their real feelings. Ginsberg recommends that the poet takes these private thoughts and makes them public, permitting them to be shared with the world. This quote speaks with the power of poetry as a kind of self-expression and interaction, and how it can be used to share one's innermost ideas and sensations with the world.
This quote is written / told by Allen Ginsberg between June 3, 1926 and April 5, 1997. He was a famous Poet from USA.
The author also have 17 other quotes.
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"He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press"
"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that"
