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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!
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America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
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None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.
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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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Sometime I’ll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.
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