American Masters (TV Series)

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)

Allen Ginsberg: Self

Quotes 

• Allen Ginsberg : There is a very famous saying among Tibetan Buddhists: "If the student is not better than the teacher, then the teacher is a failure."

  Allen Ginsberg : It's sort of a biblical prophecy.

  Allen Ginsberg : Poetry is words that are empowered to make your hair stand on end, that you realize instantly as being some form of subjective truth that has an objective reality to it, because somebody has realized it. Then you call it poetry later.