“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”
“The greatest tragedy of the twentieth century was the loss of the imagination.”
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.”
“We’re all doomed. The world’s a mess. But we must live in it.”
“Poetry is not an expression of the speaker’s emotions, it is an evocation of the emotions of the reader.”
“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.”
“America, I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.”
“I have made a career of being what I am.”
“The idea of the poet as an observer—whether of society, nature, or personal life—is a persistent romantic myth.”
“You are a cosmic thing, a part of the universal process.”
“I am the daughter of the universe, I have no obligations to anything except my own vision.”
“I am not a prophet, I am just a guy who saw it all coming.”
“You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood… back home to a young man’s dreams of glory and fame… back home to the romance of the streets.”
“The most beautiful thing in the world is the moment when you know you are not alone.”
“It’s all right to be crazy in your own way, as long as you don’t hurt anyone.”
“The reason for the success of our generation is that we’ve survived the horrors of being trapped inside our own heads.”
“Poetry is not the time to be rational.”
“You can never go home again because home is a place you were meant to leave.”
“I’m not a good poet. I’m a great poet.”
“Take joy in your life.”
“The only truth is the truth we tell ourselves.”
“The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have a thing and those who want a thing.”
“I love you, America, but sometimes you make me cry.”
“I’ve been to the dark side, and I’m not afraid to come back.”
“Your freedom is the freedom to be whoever you want to be.”
“I think the difference between good poetry and bad poetry is a matter of degree.”
“There is no end to the madness of human life.”
“The reason for our generation’s lack of hope is that we haven’t seen what is truly possible.”
“We are not truly free until we know that we are not alone.”
“Life is a beautiful thing. Don’t let anyone make you believe otherwise.”
“We live in a society that is obsessed with thinking, but not with feeling.”
“The world belongs to the poets who dare to question everything.”
“Your life is a poem you have to write yourself.”
“The universe is your home, and it’s a strange one.”
“The poet’s job is to awaken the world, to shake it up, to make it see itself.”
“Life is full of endings and beginnings; it’s the process that matters.”
“There’s nothing more frightening than the truth.”
“The future is not something that happens to us; it’s something we make.”
“You have to learn to embrace the chaos in your life.”
“The greatest gift you can give someone is the freedom to be themselves.”
“Art is a form of protest against the status quo.”
“The problem with society is that we’re all too obsessed with following the rules.”
“I am who I am, and there’s nothing wrong with that.”
“Love is a wild thing, but it’s also the only thing worth chasing.”
“Sometimes the greatest act of courage is to simply speak the truth.”
“We live in a world that’s constantly changing, and the only way to survive is to change with it.”
“Life isn’t about being happy all the time; it’s about being real.”
“The journey to self-acceptance is the most difficult one to take.”
“The real question isn’t whether or not we should live, but how we should live.”
“The most important thing in life is to live in a way that makes you proud.”