The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The … - Allen Ginsberg

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The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy!
The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and hand
and asshole holy!
Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is
holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an
angel!

Allen Ginsberg

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Irwin Allen Ginsberg (3 June 1926 – 5 April 1997) was an American poet born in Newark, New Jersey. He was a central figure among Beat Generation writers. Ginsberg is best known for "Howl", a long poem about consumer society's negative human values.

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Birth Name: Irwin Allen Ginsberg

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Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!

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