Allen Ginsberg — "Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on"

"I didn't foresee what you felt—what more hideous gape of bad mouth came first—to you—and were you prepared? To go where? In that Dark—that—in that God? a radiance? A Lord in the Void? Like an eye in t…"

"I want to be a saint, a madman, a criminal, a prophet, a god, a monster, a genius, an ordinary man, a holy man, a sexual maniac, a mystic, a poet, a lover, a father, a son, a brother, a friend, a neig…"

"The FBI is the American Gestapo."

"I have been wrathful all my life, angry against my father and all others. My wrath must end. All my images now are of heaven."

"I'm a Buddhist, and I'm a Jew, and I'm a gay man, and I'm a poet, and I'm an American, and I'm a human being. I'm all of those things."