Allen Ginsberg Quotes

To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

The engineers of the future will be poets.

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

I am trying to write stuff that is different. I am a big science fan. I read a lot of science, and 'Wonderland' has a lot of science in it. I don't know. They are hard to describe... We are living in a wonderland age of science.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.

Art is science made clear.

The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

The arts are what humanize science and history.

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.

I work with a lot of scientists, and one of the frustrating things they find is that all this fascinating stuff is being done which doesn't find its way into science fiction. They say look at the science fact pages - they're so much more imaginative than science fiction.

In reading, we are both scientists and poets.