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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question How does one become a prophet?]
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The first person who really showed me the ugly spirit was Brion Gysin. The ugly spirit shot Joan because . . . and I never found out why. This Brion wrote out on a piece of paper in a sort of trance state.
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Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!
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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
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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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I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
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I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences, in sections of two, three or four lines each.
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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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I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost success. In other words, in the long run, after a certain age, the motives for success, pride or oppressing people or getting power.
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You too must seek the sun.
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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
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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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Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
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The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.
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Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.
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Many seek and never see, anyone can tell them why. O they weep and O they cry and never take until they try unless they try it in their sleep and never some until they die. I ask many, they ask me. This is a great mystery.
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It's never to late to do nothing at all.
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I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do.
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The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.
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