Allen Ginsberg — "A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years."
A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.
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About Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
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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10 Great Quotes About Poetry and Writing by Allen Ginsberg / Face to Face, BBC
Date: Undated, quoted March 3, 2019 / 1994
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