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
Others can measure their visions by what we see.
Subject is known by what she sees.
Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!
What is obscenity? And to whom?
The Rolling Stones were an inkling towards an appreciation of the unity of music, dance and words. Any of the black R&B people who had a stage show that involved dancing, music and words did the same thing, except that I thought Jagger's words were good, his music was good and his dancing was good. I spoke to him about Blake and tried to get him to sing [William] Blake's The Grey Monk, to use his words as lyrics. He didn't do it. In the end, I did it myself.
Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!
The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid.
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.
Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do.
Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.
I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
We are all exposed to the flash bulb of death.