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
Subject is known by what she sees.
America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.
I know too much and not enough
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
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
Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on.
The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn.
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.
What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!
Everybody's serious but me.
what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination