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Irwin Allen Ginsberg

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Irwin Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was a seminal American poet and a central figure of the Beat Generation, a literary movement that challenged the conformist values of post-World War II America. He is best known for his provocative poem "Howl," which became a manifesto for the counterculture and the subject of a landmark 1957 obscenity trial that significantly expanded freedom of expression in the United States.

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

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The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight, the weight we carry is love.

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I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

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Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.

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