Allen Ginsberg Quotes


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.


Citations

Ginsberg, Allen. Journals Early Fifties Early Sixties. Edited by Gordon Ball, Grove Press, 1977.

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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.