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Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he befriended Lucien Carr, 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.

Quotes from Allen Ginsberg

Freedom to cut down world's oldest trees / Freedom to make Indians get down on their knees / And pray to your God and obey your FBI / And freedom to protest if you're not too scared to die.

—Allen Ginsberg

… who drove cross-country seventy-two hours to find out if I had a vision or you / had a vision or he had a vision to find out Eternity.

—Allen Ginsberg

Well, while I'm here I'll do the work and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumb show.

—Allen Ginsberg

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What's the actual identity, what's the actual inner person, is there even an inner self, is there any identity? Anybody's identity problem is the entire universe; it's as vast as the entire universe.

—Allen Ginsberg

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