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Allen Ginsberg
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Allen Ginsberg
Age: 70 †
Born: 1926
Born: June 3
Died: 1997
Died: April 5
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It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.
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I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.
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None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.
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I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.
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The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
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Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?
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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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What is obscenity? And to whom?
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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 am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric.
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I am neither romantic nor a visionary, and that is my weakness and perhaps my power at any rate it is one difference. In less romantic and visionary terms, I am a Jew, (with powers of introspection and eclecticism attendant, perhaps.) But I am alien to your natural grace, to the spirit which you would know as a participator in America.
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I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.
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America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
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The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it's a relief to realize you can let go.
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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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From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as something NEW and like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen. But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.
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We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter
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Let go of the spirit of the departed, and continue the celebration of your own life.
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So the problem for the poetic artist or the photographer is the common problem of continuous attentiveness, continuous attempts to notice what he is noticing, continuous alertness to catch himself thinking or seeing, devotional attentiveness to the world he's moving through.
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A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.
Allen Ginsberg
