that life can offer to a man, the spirit of love survives to ennoble our lives if we have the wit and the courage and the faith—and the art! to persist.”Allen Ginsberg endured more in a span of thirty years than most would have to deal with in two lifetimes. His ability to face the world and the society that drove him to such lengths was amazing. He is truly the epitome of perseverance.In a society where Ginsberg, nor any of his kind, was accepted in to the daily works, he proved that the life of one person honestly can change the world. His contribution to literature is the greatest of his time, and should be admired for the courage in adversity shown throughout all his works. A great man, Hubert H. Humphrey once said, “The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of a different drummer.” If this is indeed the great challenge facing all of us, Ginsberg certainly pushed America and Americans in the right direction with poems like “Howl,” proving that endurance will win out over adversity if we, like Ginsberg, would only have the patience to persevere....
