Allen Ginsberg Quotes
There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.
Ginsberg, Allen. "The Art of Poetry No. 8." Interview by Thomas Clark, The Paris Review, no. 37, 1966.
This is one of the proverbs of King Solomon of the Jews, son of King David. This quotation urges a leader to avoid advisors and appointees who do not tell the truth.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
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.
