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Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

American Poet

Born: Jun 3, 1926

Died: Apr 5, 1997

America Best Father Generation World You

Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. Allen Ginsberg

Culture Controls Whoever Media Images

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. Allen Ginsberg

World Awareness Save The World Only Poetry Does The Only Thing Thing Save

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive. Allen Ginsberg

Alive Possible Fact Got Cling Normal Person Decent Which Fully

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. Allen Ginsberg

Best Generation Madness Naked Starving Minds Saw Destroyed My Generation Hysterical

I would say that Times Square was the central hangout for Burroughs, Kerouac, and myself from about 1945 to 1948. Allen Ginsberg

Myself Say Would About Square Times Times Square Central

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. Allen Ginsberg

Black musicians were imitating speech cadences, and Kerouac was imitating the black musicians' breath cadences on their horns and brought it back to speech. It always was speech rhythms or cadences as far as the ear that Kerouac was developing. All passed through black music. Allen Ginsberg

Music Musicians Black Breath Imitating Back Black Music Horns Brought Through Developing Always Passed Were As Far As Rhythms Far Ear Speech

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