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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.
Allen Ginsberg
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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.
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Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.
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If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction
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I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.
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in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night
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The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!
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There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.
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Things are symbols of themselves.
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