I took a lot of LSD and Psilocybin previous to leaving for India and…well, I was in a slightly disordered state of mind. I thought it was absolutely necessary for me to drop dead in order to obtain complete enlightenment—for my ego to vanish entirely and for my person to vanish entirely and everything about me to vanish entirely in order to be perfect.
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"The CIA is dope peddlers, murderers, and liars."
"I'm a father, but I'm not a disciplinarian."
"I used to be a communist when I was a kid I'm not sorry. I smoke marijuana every chance I get."
"If I look at my work, I think the most important thing is the honesty."
"The poet is a criminal. He stands against the law."
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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