Allen Ginsberg — "I don't think there's any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more…"
I don't think there's any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince other people to do anything. The really interesting thing is the struggle with the self, and the relation with the self, and there is no end to the improvement that can be done there, the discoveries that can be made.
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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.
Details
Quotes about Consciousness / A-Z Quotes
Date: Undated, collection published January 31, 2017