"one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one's own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others"

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About Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and a central figure in the Beat Generation. His poem Howl became a landmark work of twentieth-century literature and free-expression debates. He died in 1997.

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