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Allen Ginsberg

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If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction


— Allen Ginsberg


#beat #poet #poetry #poets

what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination


— Allen Ginsberg


#imagination

Just because I like to suck cock doesn't make me any less American than Jesse Helms.


— Allen Ginsberg


#gay-rights #humor #oral-sex #politics #humor

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


— Allen Ginsberg


#bed #best #brought #certain #experience

with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and cock and endless balls


— Allen Ginsberg


#dreams

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter


— Allen Ginsberg


#loyalty #madness #mental-illness #writing #friendship

in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night


— Allen Ginsberg


#howl #dreams

I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.


— Allen Ginsberg


#poetry #dreams

This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven.


— Allen Ginsberg


#metaphysics

I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly. God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.


— Allen Ginsberg


#religious #death






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According to fellow poet Michael McClure it was clear "that a barrier had been broken that a human voice and body had been hurled against the harsh wall of America and its supporting armies and navies and academies and institutions and ownership systems and power support bases. She also tried to kill herself by slitting her wrists and was soon taken to Greystone a mental hospital; Allen Ginsberg would spend much of Ginsberg's youth in mental hospitals. The yellow of the sunshine also showed the key on the side of the window.

His moving and angry poem September on Jessore Road calling attention to the plight of Bangladeshi refugees exemplifies what the literary critic Helen Vendler described as Ginsberg's tireless persistence in protesting against "imperial politics and persecution of the powerless. D. " Ginsberg's political activism was consistent with his religious beliefs.

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