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Allen Ginsberg

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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.


— Allen Ginsberg


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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.


— Allen Ginsberg


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America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.


— Allen Ginsberg


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Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.


— Allen Ginsberg


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The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.


— Allen Ginsberg


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America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?


— Allen Ginsberg


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I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.


— Allen Ginsberg


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Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.


— Allen Ginsberg


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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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