Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsbergwas an American poet and one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the counterculture that soon would follow. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture, such as his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as the Beat Generation, which included famous writers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 June 1926
CityNewark, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?
Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!
What is obscenity? And to whom?
The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene
Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
Sanity - a trick of agreement
Inside skull vast as outside skull
who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism
I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric.
Night is the wonderful opportunity to take rest, to forgive, to smile, to get ready for all the battles that you have to fight tomorrow.
You can't photograph everything.
We are all exposed to the flash bulb of death.
An unnoticed corner of the world suddenly becomes noticed, and when you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it becomes sacred. (On Robert Frank's photography)
Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.