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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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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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Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!
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Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.
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All these books are published in Heaven.
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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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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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Breathe when you breathe. Walk where you walk. Talk when you talk. Cry when you cry. Die when you die. Let go when you let go.
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So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'
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To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.
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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
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The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.
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That's what the shaman said. He didn't know what he was up against. He didn't expect the strength and weight and evil intensity of this spirit, this entity, as he called it. The same way the priest in an exorcism has to take on the spirit.
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Everybody's serious but me.
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What if someone gave a war and Nobody came?
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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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This is the one and only firmament therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven.
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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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Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
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The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.
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If you want to make order, put your own heart in order, and, having put one's heart in order, one can regulate the family order.
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