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 made monstrous and unlawful.
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"Actually one has to think of them, too. How can their problem be solved?—because they're hooked to the drugs, their whole existence depends on drugs. If the drug problem didn't exist, if the whole pro…"
"Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!"
"I'm a poet, for Chrissake. I'm not a politician."
"I have no idea what I'm doing, but I'm doing it with all my heart."
"I'm a Buddhist. I'm a Jew. I'm a Communist. I'm a homosexual. I'm an old man. I'm a young man. I'm a woman. I'm a child. I'm a black man. I'm a white man. I'm an American. I'm a Russian. I'm a Chinese…"
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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