Allen Ginsberg — "There's an end to suffering when you understand the openness of things. And that…"
There's an end to suffering when you understand the openness of things. And that the way out would be to have a right view of it, (that is an understanding of the whole situation, the whole transitory situation), a right view, then the right ambition, (to be free of attachment), and then the right thought, (clear thought on the subject, that you're not fuzzily looking for a..'Mary, save me') – Then, from that right speech, you're explaining clearly that we are, in a sense, empty.
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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.
