"Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It ..." - Allen Ginsberg

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

— Allen Ginsberg
Poet and writer

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Allen Ginsberg was a 20th-century American poet and writer. Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Read more on Wikipedia →

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