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You too must seek the sun.

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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.
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The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air, the bodies of the soul that built the wonderland shuffled and stalked and stalked and lurched in attitudes of immemorial nightmare all around.
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Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!
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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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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found - the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it.
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The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.
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There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.
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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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he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.
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I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.
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A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.
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The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of the sacred
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America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
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Inside skull vast as outside skull
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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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Man’s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells
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America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry.
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