Love is only a recognition of our own guilt and imperfection, and a supplication for forgiveness to the perfect beloved. This is why we love those who are more beautiful than ourselves, why we fear them, and why we must be unhappy lovers.
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"I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane."
"The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive."
"I'm not interested in being a Beat Generation icon. I'm interested in being a human being."
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
"Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!"
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.
The Letters of Allen Ginsberg / Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
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