Allen Ginsberg — "I will think nothing but beautiful thoughts."
I will think nothing but beautiful thoughts.
I will think nothing but beautiful thoughts.
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"The only decent politicians are dead politicians."
"If you don't have a story, you're not a human being. You're just a collection of cells."
"The universe is a symphony, and we are all instruments in it."
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"To be good, you've got to be a little crazy."
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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