Allen Ginsberg — "Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels."
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
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"I'm a great believer in the power of silence, and the power of stillness, and the power of contemplation."
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul will grow sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have …"
"There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now."
"What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?"
"I'm a great believer in the power of the word, and the power of the image, and the power of the sound."
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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Date: Undated, collection published January 31, 2017
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