I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

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.

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

Follow your inner moonlight dont hide the madness.

I had a moment of clarity saw the feeling in the heart of things walked out to the garden crying.

First thought best thought.

Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest to forgive to smile to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow.

Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.

We're all golden sunflowers inside.

I would say that Times Square was the central hangout for Burroughs, Kerouac, and myself from about 1945 to 1948.

To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.

A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

Those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

Sanity is madness put to good use.

Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.