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

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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...

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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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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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… 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

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