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"I'm a husband, but I'm not a patriarch."
"The key is in the window, the key is in the sunlight at the window—I have the key—Get married Allen don't take drugs—the key is in the bars, in the sunlight in the window."
"There can only be satisfaction in knowing that everyone plays a role and everything acts in perfect balance. Illusion is dangerous, ultimately poisonous. The blank infinity of dreams forever to be tem…"
"I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying."
"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."
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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