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 neighbor, a citizen, a human being, a creature of the earth.
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"Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions."
"I am a poet, and I am a human being. I am a creature of the earth. I am a creature of the universe. I am a creature of God."
"The world knows the love that's in its breast as in the flower, the suffering lonely world."
"I'm a soul, but I'm not a ghost."
"I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane."
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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