Allen Ginsberg — "America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing."
America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.
America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.
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"Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb."
"Every American wants MORE & MORE of the world and why not, you only live once. But the mistake made in America is persons accumulate more & more dead matter, machinery, possessions & rugs & fact infor…"
"To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow."
"I'm not interested in being famous. I'm interested in being a poet."
"I'm an existence, but I'm not a phenomenon."
American Beat poet whose Howl (1956) faced an obscenity trial and became a counterculture manifesto. Closely associated with Jack Kerouac (Beat novelist, On the Road) and William S. Burroughs (fellow Beat, Naked Lunch). For an intellectual contrast, see T.S. Eliot, high-modernist poet of The Waste Land — Ginsberg's open-line confessional Beat verse was a deliberate rejection of Eliot's allusive academic formalism — the two halves of mid-century American poetry.
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