"My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed." ― Allen Ginsberg Topic(s): Experience More From Allen Ginsberg "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." "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." "I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator." More In Experience "Like every aspect of cancer I’ve weathered thus far, today’s experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun."― April Winchell "A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience."― Edward Norton "What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else."― Joseph Campbell