I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I'm doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends. And I'd like to keep living with someone — maybe even a man — and explore relationships that way.
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"The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain."
"How much of the juvenile delinquency and robbery and problematic crimes in New York that are clogging all the courts and making everything such a mess might be traceable to narcotics crimes which coul…"
"I'm a student, but I'm not a pupil."
"Because I am still clinging to my human known me, Allen Ginsberg — and to enter this thing means final, complete abandonment of all I know of my I am except for this outer-seeming otherness which requ…"
"I'm a truth-seeker, but I'm not a conspiracy theorist."
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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