Allen Ginsberg — "Blessed be He in homosexuality! Blessed be He in Paranoia! Blessed be He in the …"
Blessed be He in homosexuality! Blessed be He in Paranoia! Blessed be He in the city! Blessed be He in the Book!
Blessed be He in homosexuality! Blessed be He in Paranoia! Blessed be He in the city! Blessed be He in the Book!
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"I have been wrathful all my life, angry against my father and all others. My wrath must end. All my images now are of heaven."
"I want to be a saint, a madman, a criminal, a prophet, a god, a monster, a genius, an ordinary man, a holy man, a sexual maniac, a mystic, a poet, a lover, a father, a son, a brother, a friend, a neig…"
"I'm not a revolutionary. I'm an evolutionary."
"The only decent politicians are dead politicians."
"I'm a dreamer, but I'm not a fantasist."
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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