"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does"
- Allen Ginsberg
About this Quote
In this quote, Allen Ginsberg stresses the importance of understanding the world and how poetry can assist in accomplishing this. He suggests that the world needs conserving and the only way to do so is by recovering our awareness of it. This indicates being conscious of the concerns and problems that exist on the planet and doing something about it to address them. Ginsberg believes that poetry has the power to awaken this awareness within us. Through the use of language and images, poetry can evoke emotions and provoke ideas that can result in a much deeper understanding of the world and our place in it. Ultimately, Ginsberg sees poetry as a tool for bringing about favorable change and conserving 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.
"We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry"
"Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going"
"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"
