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
Candor disarms paranoia.
We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
Things are symbols of themselves.
Subject is known by what she sees.
what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination
What is obscenity? And to whom?
Inside skull vast as outside skull
We are all exposed to the flash bulb of death.
When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.