There can only be satisfaction in knowing that everyone plays a role and everything acts in perfect balance. Illusion is dangerous, ultimately poisonous. The blank infinity of dreams forever to be tempered with reality.
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"Love is key to an exciting life and the moment you leave the world of love, you lose the best life."
"I’m not afraid to say what I mean. That’s why I’m a poet."
"I think that's thy poison of poetry and I think that's the poison of political activity. As soon as you've got an obligation, you're a prisoner of an obligation, you're no longer actually reacting ope…"
"I'm an optimist, but I'm not a fool."
"No more to say, and nothing to weep for but the Beings in the Dream, trapped in its disappearance, sighing, screaming with it, buying and selling pieces of phantom, worshipping each other, worshipping…"
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.
Interview at Caffé Trieste, San Francisco
Date: Circa 1996 (interview published November 20, 2020)
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