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Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question How does one become a prophet?]

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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others
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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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The hero surviving his own murder, his own suicide, his own addiction, surviving his own disappearance from the scene
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who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism
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I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.
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Presumably, if you see spirit at the moment it gained access, then it'll be dropped.
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Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph
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I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.
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The suffering itself is not so bad it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.
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The actual materials are important. A book at the nightstand is important - a light you can get at - or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's latern.
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I smoke marijuana every chance I get.
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There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.
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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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The best thing about being famous is that it makes it easier to get laid.
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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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I had a moment of clarity, saw the feeling in the heart of things, walked out to the garden crying.
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We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
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Now I have enough money to travel wherever I want, but I haven't got the health.
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