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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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Irwin Allen Ginsberg
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Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
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I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.
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I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
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The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn.
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I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense.
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Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.
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I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.
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This is the one and only firmament therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven.
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The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open.
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America, why are your libraries full of tears?
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The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.
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