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Our heads are round so thought can change direction
Allen Ginsberg
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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier.
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Subject is known by what she sees.
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There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.
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The combination of drugs, homosexuality, some good prose recited on screen. . . . In the sweat lodge ceremony we went through, did you get any glimpse of the Ugly Spirit, what that was historically or biographically?
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We love to be hurt and we love to have our unhealing wounds opened and reopened again: we sit staring in the mirror of art, fascinated by our own deformities.
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The censorship of language is the censorship of consciousness.
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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
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I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
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Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!
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Everybody's serious but me.
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Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.
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Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.
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I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly. God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.
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