Allen Ginsberg Quotes


I don’t think there’s any problem with advancing consciousness and becoming more and more aware of the struggle, not with the world, not to convince other people to do anything. The really interesting think is the struggle with the self, and the relation with the self, and there is no end to the improvement that can be done there, the discoveries that can be made.


Citations

Ginsberg, Allen. Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958-1996. Edited by David Carter, HarperCollins, 2001.

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Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg
  • Born: June 3, 1926
  • Died: April 5, 1997
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer, Poet

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions.