Allen Ginsberg — "The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is holy! The ton…"
The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand and anus holy!
The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand and anus holy!
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"First thought, best thought."
"Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars!"
"I'm not a saint. I'm a sinner."
"I'm not interested in being a Beat Generation icon. I'm interested in being a human being."
"I’m sick of being a tool of the ruling class."
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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