Allen Ginsberg

Poet, Activist

Allen Ginsberg was a pivotal American poet known for his role in the Beat Generation and his influential work 'Howl', which challenged societal norms.

Born
June 3, 1926
Died
April 5, 1997
Quotes
165
Rank
#172

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"Who’ll come lie down in the dark with me Belly to belly and knee to knee Who’ll look into my hooded eye Who’ll lie down under my darkened thigh?"

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"That's what the shaman said. He didn't know what he was up against. He didn't expect the strength and weight and evil intensity of this spirit, this "entity," as he called it. The same way the priest in an exorcism has to take on the spirit."

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"Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!"

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"This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven."

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"My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves."

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