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Irwin Allen Ginsberg (/ˈɡɪnzbɜːrɡ/; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet, philosopher, and writer. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture, such as his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as the Beat Generation, which included famous writers such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs.

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The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air, the bodies of the soul that built the wonderland shuffled and stalked and stalked and lurched in attitudes of immemorial nightmare all around.

Air, Attitude, Barren, Built, Cities, Wonderland

I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.

Children, Dark, Deep, Long, Sleep, Wild

What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?

Came, Gave, Ifs, War, What If

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!

Dream, Dreaming, Fruit, Men, Moon, Neon

From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen. " But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.

Echoes, People, Poetry, Spontaneous, Beat

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

Doe, Graphic Design, Reclaiming, Save, World

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

Fiction, History, Nothing, Science, Science Fiction

No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machines, the final wish is love -cannot be bitter, cannot deny, cannot withhold if denied: the weight is too heavy

Angel, Deny, Dream, Mad, Sleep

The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid.

Easier, Getting Laid, Best Things, Thing, Famous

Inside skull vast as outside skull

Skull, Skulls, Vast

who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism

Arms, Capitalism, Cigarette, Haze, Holes, Tobacco

he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it

Died, Hands, Prove It, Threw, Universe

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

God, Thank, Thank God

I've got enough money to live where I want, but I don't want to move. Go out and have sexual adventures in Burma.

Moving, Adventure, Want, Enough, Live, Burma

Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof huts Wet processions Families walk Stunted boys big heads don't talk Look bony skulls & silent round eyes Starving black angels in human disguise.

Angel, Eye, Heads, Rain, Silent, Talk

You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.

Intermingle, Paris, Past, Present, Wonderful

They [Nicaragua] haven't had elections because they are in a state of seige by the United States. They would have had elections if the U. S. had left them alone. But the U. S. has mounted a full scale war against them. So how can you ask them to behave normally?

Ask, Nicaragua, States, United States, War

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

Addiction, Brain, Catch, Cold, Snow, Snows

Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.

Consciousness, History, Level, Levels, Mankind, Records

Let the straight flower bespeak its purpose in straightness - to seek the light. Let the crooked flower bespeak its purpose in crookedness - to seek the light. Let the crookedness and straightness bespeak the light.

Bespeak, Crookedness, Flower, Light, Purpose, Seek

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