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What were some of Allen Ginsberg's influences?

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The prose of Jack Kerouac, the insights of Zen Buddhism, and the free verse of Walt Whitman were some of the sources for Ginsberg's quest to glorify everyday experience, embrace the ecstatic moment, and promote spontaneity and freedom of expression.

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